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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

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 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

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.
about 4 years ago in Watson Query 2 Planned for future release

A tab-separated values (TSV) file format should be supported as source data in Data Virtualization.

A tab-separated values (TSV) file format should be supported as source data in Data Virtualization. (A Japanese Client) CSV file format is listed in the supported data source list for Data Virtualization as below. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowl...
over 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 3 years ago in Watson Query 0

Join multiple tables from UI

As a data steward I would like to join more than 2 tables from the UI.
about 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Not under consideration

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.
almost 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Planned for future release