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Watson Query

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Need to able to prompt/migrate Virtual tables created from lower environment like TEST to Higher PROD

Problem Statement : Currently we don't have option to prompt/migrate Virtual tables created from lower environment like TEST to Higher PROD. Pain Points : Developers need develop in multiple environments.
3 months ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

Excel data source out-of-the-box connector

We have many customers who wants Excel as data source and need out-of-the-box connector for Watson Query. Remote connection is a very tedious process and even creating it for demo purpose and showcasing it to customer is painful and it results in ...
4 months ago in Watson Query 0 Submitted

Ability to call REST APIs as a data source in Watson Query

We are currently probing the capabilities of Watson Query to support a data mesh architecture by acting as virtual layer over our heterogenous IT landscape, providing uniformly structured data services to the consumers. A large number of our data ...
6 months ago in Watson Query 0 Submitted

Ability to create REST endpoints via UI

Today there is no ability to create WQ RESTful endpoints via the UI. RESTful endpoints which expose virtual data need to be created via the Db2 RESTful API. A large US Federal customer requests a UI screen to enable user-friendly creation of Db2 R...
6 months ago in Watson Query 0 Not under consideration

Add Support for AWS Athena as Data Source for Watson Query

There is currently no support for connecting to AWS Athena, the generic connector does not work and no workaround has been found.
7 months ago in Watson Query 0 Not under consideration

'Publish asset' permission in Watson Query

Customer requests a new permission in Watson Query to 'publish asset'. This permission should be assignable to any user, regardless of their WQ role. This new permission would provide customers with the flexibility to determine which specific user...
7 months ago in Watson Query 0 Not under consideration

Even Multiple files exists on S3,it should be able to data virtualize.

Currently it is possible to virtualize data if there are only 1 file in folder. If client wants to virtualize data on S3, they have to create many folders.
7 months ago in Watson Query 0 Not under consideration

WQ - Delta Lake format support

WQ/BigSQL supports hive style partitioning, but but it does not support delta lake format at the present time. For example, today we can query data stored in parquet files on ADLS. It would be fantastic to extend this to support the new Delta Lake...
9 months ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

Federated PASSTHRU Capability in Watson Query (WQ)

IBM's federated technology supports SET PASSTHRU to a remote Server. This enables SQL syntax native to the remote data repository to be sent. This is useful for performance comparisons (e.g. predicate pushdown) to be made from the same end-user cl...
9 months ago in Watson Query 0 Not under consideration

Propagation of Indexes for Virtualized Tables to SYSCAT.INDEXES

Watson Query (WQ) is based on IBM's decades-old federation technology (DataJoiner, et al). In Federation Indexes on remote objects are propagated back to Db2 and populate SYSCAT.INDEXES. These Index specifications help inform the federated server ...
9 months ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration