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Watson Query

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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...
about 2 years ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

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...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

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.
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

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...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Have multiple DV instances on one CP4D install

Currently, We can't deployment multiple DV instance services. This may bring some limits, especially for sensitive data. Please consider adding support for this. Our scenario needs to support multiple departments/groups using DV, and the related d...
about 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

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...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

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 5 years ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

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 5 years ago in Watson Query 2 Under review

Writeback to object storage and databases through data virtualization layer

Real-Life Scenario In our Data Lake, we want to expose all of our data sources (structured and unstructured) to our customers in an unified data virtualization layer. In one use case, we want to train an AI algorithm on the data and flag those fil...
about 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 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 ...
about 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review