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DV dashboard page loading response time shall not exceed 5 seconds for 90% of the time

Dashboard page loading performance benchmark of customer is 5 seconds for 90% of the time. Current DV dashboard page loading time is 3 times in customer's cluster. First, it can help to improve the user experience by providing quick access to the ...
12 months ago in Watson Query 0 Not under consideration

JOIN keys in JOIN stage should be able to be used even if each fields/columns have different names in each.

When users use Join stage for TableA and TableB, if each join keys have different column name (for example, each join key’s column names are col1a in Table A and col1b in Table B), it goes to error. Our customer strongly requests us to improve so...
over 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Not under consideration

Support of streaming/parsing/converting CLOB/BLOB type data structures in DV for larger data elements such as binary images that reside as objects on an S3

Requirement Integrated Governance In order to be able to use the CP4D Data Virtualization in combination with Watson Knowledge Catalog as a single, integrated governance layer over structured data (residing in Databases / Flat files) and unstructu...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

Add data masking support for BLOB columns

We have some RTF data loaded into the new DB2 Warehouse environment as a BLOB column in table UDF_CIS_RAW_DV.SXACDCLIENTDOCDETAILTEXT_GUID_DETAILTEXT and we're able to extract it back into an RTF by casting the DetailText field as varbinary, but w...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

View object also should be add to the data transformation project as source data.

Currently view object cannot be added to the data transformation project as source data. However view object also added same with table objects.
over 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Planned for future release

DV Admin should be able to manage access of more than one "My Virtualized Data" at the same time. See TS004587996.

TS004587996 has all the details. The current UI design only allow one my virtualized data to be managed at a time. In order to manage access of one virtualized data, 7 to 10 clicks are required. With 70 virtualized data to manage, this quickly bec...
about 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Planned for future release

Display the warning when User would delete DV table that used in the analytics projects be someone created.

When we would delete a DV(data virtualized) table, we want to the information where is one DV table used. Because, if someone is using this DV table, it is probrem that DV table be deleted. Current workaround is nothing.
almost 4 years ago in Watson Query 2 Planned for future release

A tab-separated values (TSV) file format should be supported as source data in Data Virtualization.

A tab-separated values (TSV) file format should be supported as source data in Data Virtualization. (A Japanese Client) CSV file format is listed in the supported data source list for Data Virtualization as below. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowl...
over 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Planned for future release

Multitenancy support for Data Virtualization for On-Prem Cloud Pak for Data single-instance deployment

This is relating to on-premise deployment of Cloud Pak for Data on bare-metal servers. In the case where customer is achieving multitenancy within a single instance of Cloud Pak for Data, Data Virtualization Service currently unable to provide the...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 1 Not under consideration

Automatic deletion of unneeded archive logs

The following directories of c-db2u-dv-db2u-0 will continue to accumulate archive logs regardless of how often the user uses them. /mnt/bludata0/db2/archive_log/db2inst1/BIGSQL/NODE0000/LOGSTREAM0000/C0000000 If left unattended, the file system m...
about 2 years ago in Watson Query 0