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Please support Apache Flink yarn deployments on IBM Analytics Engine

Flink is probably the most popular and feature-rich open source streaming engine. It supports features that aren't supported by Spark Structured Streaming such as: joining streams local state stores (e.g. rocksdb) See also: https://ibmclou...
almost 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 2 Planned for future release

Allow Filter node to accept user criteria

In the Filter node, allow user to specify criteria by which to determine which fields are filtered. At minimum, allow for a basic text pattern to apply to field names. Better yet would be to support regular expressions. Even better would be to all...
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Local or desktop version

Hi Ronald, We have had numerous requests from customers to share the IBM roadmap for Data Connect / Data Refinery on private cloud / on premises ( i.e. self service data shaping tooling for on prem deployment) - and I have thus far not been able t...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

automatically send newly created content from a data source

The data platform needs to provide support to automatically send newly created content from a data source since the last time data was sent and ingested into Discovery. Currently the data platform has no mechanism for identifying new content since...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Support a unique identifier concept in data sources

A developer or admin working with the Watson Discovery service is going to want to keep it as closely in sync with the content in all of the data sources they are working with. As content changes in the data sources, developers need to have an eas...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Provide a less database centric view of data sources

The data platform needs to provide a less Database centric view of each supported data source. Currently any user wanting to move data from a source such as Salesforce is required to have a deep understanding of the database structure and associat...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

QRep Automatic Refresh with ICU Decoding

ICBC load existing data from z/OS db2 to Oracle: z/OS exported file -> UDS (ICBC application) decoding -> SQL Loader import to Oracle DB. For QREP automatic Refresh, decoding with customized decoding rule is required. It should be:z/OS expor...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Alternative of Updating All or Changed Fields for SQL Update

When replication of SQL Update, only changed fields are updated now. The data consistency cannot be guaranteed if any changes are happened during the period of no replication is executed. All fields updating is required for SQL Update data replica...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

users of WDP, not just Data Catalog Admins, should be able view policies that are in place and they are responsible for following

Currently on the Admin of the policy manager can see the actual policies that are created. It's critical that other users should at least be able to view policies that they themselves are suppose to be compliant with, and they will be subject to w...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Controller web intercompany reconcile

At present all liability balances are shown as positive in the intercompany. This means matched intercompany balances show as unmatched. This is a key part of the appeal of the Controller web which would be extremely useful for our subsidiaries to...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release