Runtime 0.1 - Overall Status

[daka1510]

Scope

This issue is meant to give an overall status overview related to the enablement of IBMRuntimeService APIs for Cloud runtime support (0.1) in the qiskit-ibm-runtime library.

Status

Must have:

Theme	IBMRuntimeService API	Status Legacy	Status Cloud
Authentication	active_account	✅	✅
Authentication	delete_account	✅	✅
Authentication	save_account	✅	✅
Authentication	accounts	✅	✅
Authentication	logout	🚫	🚫
Programs	delete_program	✅	✅
Programs	pprint_programs	✅	✅
Programs	program	✅	✅
Programs	programs	✅	✅
Programs	set_program_visibility	✅	✅
Programs	update_program	✅	✅
Programs	upload_program	✅	✅
Jobs	delete_job	✅	✅
Jobs	job	✅	✅
Jobs	jobs	✅	✅
Jobs	run	✅	✅
Jobs	run_circuits	🚫	🚫
Jobs	sample	🚫	🚫
Jobs	estimate	🚫	🚫
Backends	backends	✅	✅
Backends	backend	✅	✅
Other	my_reservations	🚫	🚫
BackendV2		🔜	🔜 #102
API Documentation		✅	✅
Tutorials		✅	⚠️
Merge in qiskit-ibm repo		✅	✅

• Setup repository secrets #17
• Exiting Python session generates TypeError #74
• Review "Authors and Citation" section in the Readme #24
• Verify test coverage #109
• Fix jupyter and visualization modules within qiskit_ibm_runtime #111

Nice to have (in priority order):

• IBMQ Provider RuntimeEncoder can't encode instructions qiskit-ibm-provider#190
• Use websocket stream to retrieve runtime job results #33
• Query programs by searching name/description #13
• Base class in qiskit-terra
• Enable automated code coverage reports #22
• Allow user to specify human readable service instance name during authentication #44
• Refactor environment variables used by test cases #30

✅ = done (i.e. users can run IBMRuntimeService().xxx or IBMRuntimeService.yyy for static methods)
🚫 = not supported
🔜 = work in progress (links to a PR)
⚠️ = blocked / need more info