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Spark job to be able to access, read and write on external database without the credentials being exposed anywhere (instance, logs, job metadata, etc…)

We want to create a job on a Spark instance of the Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark that runs a Spark application reading from and writing to an Exasol database. To enable database access, we need to pass our user credentials into the job....
about 1 month ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Ability to paste '-' characters as 0.

0 values formatted as a '-' in Excel cannot be pasted into Planning Analytics. This causes a spreading error. Users often format 0 values as a '-'. It would be helpful if Planning Analytics could interpret '-' as a 0 on paste.
28 days ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

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about 2 months ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio on Cloud 0 Submitted

Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

About Notebook Data Lineage

My customer uses the Watson Studio's Notebook. Currently, it is not possible to visually see the relationships between the data and models used in the Notebook. They want to "automatically" visualize the relationships(lineage) between the data and...
over 2 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

MDE Job is failed with error "Deployment not found with given id"

We found the issue related to the Spark/MDE blocker issue. MDE job triggered a spark-runtime deployment first The spark-runtime deployment then triggered corresponding spark-master/worker pods If the 1st spark-master/worker pod does not come up wi...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 0 Under review

Ability to resize the columns across the job page, as well as any other columns in order to see text that is too long

Column Resizing so that we can see the full line of text and not have it cut off if the text is too long. The ability to resize would help for copying and pasting pieces of the string or the entire string itself.
10 months ago in Analytics Engine 1 Submitted

Reservation of nodes for spark job/ Labeling, Taint and Toleration of workers and spark pods 

As an CP4d service provides we would like to use special worker nodes only for spark job execution called via the pyspark API. One reason for this is, that we sometimes see that the spark jobs use up all resources. In this scenario we would like a...
about 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

allow OPL CPLEX models to use data not only in .csv but also in .dat

In the CPLEX IDE on prem, OPL CPLEX models use .dat file to store data In WML OPL CPLEX models work fine with data in .dat, .csv and .json Allowing .dat files in Watson Studio for OPL CPLEX models would make the move from CPLEX on prem to either W...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio on Cloud 1 Not under consideration

support auth mode 3 for scheduling forecasts in PAW

scheduling a forecast is not supported in Planning Analytics Local configured with Windows integrated authentication (mode 3). compare with: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=forecasts-schedule-baseline-forecast since ther...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted