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Use the engines of the lakehouse in Git integrated projects

We have an instance of watsonx.data in CP4D, installed on Openshift in Azure Cloud. Within watsonx.data we have buckets representing azure containers within a Azure Blob storage. In projects that are integrated with Git, when we need to configure ...

A Github integration ensures enterprise-grade governance, automation, and agility for data engineering workflows. By leveraging GitHub and LevelUp tooling, clients gain robust version control, rollback capabilities, and automated testing/deployment for pipelines and DAGs. It reduces operational risk, accelerates delivery, and aligns with modern DevOps practices.

Large enterprise clients like AT&T, who manage complex data pipelines across hybrid environments, will benefit from streamlined CI/CD processes, improved security, and consistent governance across services. How should it work? GitHub Integra...

Automatic data validation by using asnclp create qsub with different data type column mapping

Related to the case TS020335936 Scenario: Consider the following qsub creation: mapping VARCHAR(26) to TIMESTAMP(6) TRGCOLS EXCLUDE (RECORD_TIME, MES_RECORD_TIME, SITE_CD, D_KEY, CHANGE_TYPE, CHANGE_TIME) EXPRESSION ( "'MES2'" TARGET SITE_CD, "cur...

Performance improvement for expression

Add one column with STATIC expression on target, but got long processing time (delay) on apply side. Would like to know the reason why. New Expression:Expression: ‘MES1’ -> site_cd Existing expression looks like as:CASE WHEN :SYS_CD is NULL the...

Alter QSUB add *EXPRESSION* without DROP/RECREATE

As we know, user can alter QSUB and add current_timestamp / timestamp column without drop/recreate QSUB. But it is NOT possible to add an *EXPRESSION* without drop/recreate QSUB. With this feature, it's much more convenient without annoy drop/recr...

Support new connection type for watsonx.data and support for Spark engines in it

Documentation: https://ibm-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/p/shrinivas_kulkarni_in/EcUbCoYhyVRJmWrwscDVUx8B0jxHp5cqCLtr4E7xuCGDMw?e=tbj8w8 Future State Support for new connection type to point to a specific Spark Engine of watsonx.data, either on SaaS or so...

Request for Product Enhancement – Low Latency Data Processing Capabilities in watsonx.data

The customer is currently using watsonx.data to support a high-partition, high-ingestion analytics platform. While the system is now stable after several patches and fixes, they are looking ahead to future enhancements that can meet their true low...

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...

Allow Db2 columnar table replication to watsonx.data

Truist has obtained 3M+ of Data Replication entitlements in Q1 of 2025 to replicate data from Exadata and Db2 WH to Snowflake. Db2 WH table are all in columnar format and Truist would like for the tables to stay the same way. Our current proposed ...

Enable to add custom first names to the underlying language dictionaries

Security organizations would like to analyze reports, in these reports officers often use partial person names (only last names for example). In SPSS Text Analytics there in an extraction option for "Group partial and full person names together", ...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Text Analytics 1 Not under consideration