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Watson Query

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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

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

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

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

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

Whenever Data Assets are shown in the CP4D UI, there should be a link to take it to the "Run SQL" page, if it is a virtualized asset.

The (data) assets inside CP4D could originate from anywhere, however if they are from Data Virtualization (Watson Query), then users can perform SQL based analysis on it. These assets could be presented to users in different channels 1. Inside a c...
about 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Not under consideration

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

Modify virtual table from UI

As a data steward I would like to have the possibility to modify a virtual table from the UI, without the need to run a SQL statement.
about 1 year 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