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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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All Db2 Family datasources enable DB2 Trusted context for SSO

To make the Data Fabric more user friendly, enable the Db2 Family datasources to be able to use Trusted Context connections. When using SSO, the person will not need a a password to access the datasources, as the platform will flow the user name t...
about 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Ability to create custom role in Data Virtualization

At the moment, Data Virtualization (aka DV) comes with 4 pre-defined roles, i.e. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQNUZ_3.5.0/svc-dv/dv_user_management.html After virtualize some table, if user wants to grant others access to the ne...
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

'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...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

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.
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

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...
over 1 year 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...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Join multiple tables from UI

As a data steward I would like to join more than 2 tables from the UI.
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Remove the field Schema in data virtualization

Hi, According to an answer that we receive, the schemas name is only a suggestion and can be anything you would like when creating the Schema. By default, the Schemas are not owned by anyone, as a result, the other users can see all schema names b...
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

It should be chooseable OUTER of INNER JOIN in DV.

In DataVirtualization, we can create join view. But we can create only inner join view by using GUI. We know we can create outer join view by using SQL editor. But it is not acceptable from our customer.
over 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

Data Virtualization : Ability to edit joined tables query and synchronize linked catalog and projects asset

We use the data virtualization component of CP4D to connect to external datasources and link them to internal datasources. We virtualize these data and join different virtualized tables (internal + external) to each other. Then we publish the virt...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review