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User experience in virtualized results

We are unable to join more than 2 views at a time in DV UI. If we have 4 views that need to be joined, we have to first join 1 and 2 together as view A, then 3 and 4 together as view B, then we can join those newly joined A and B views together. W...
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Planned for future release

User experience in virtualized results

There are multiple data source connection in DV for the same data source (HANA in this case) with different user authentication details. Connection names are not defined in the list of views that are pulled from data source connections and hence, ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

Provide support to Map Db2 Virtual tables outside the studio in Batch mode

Working with Customer who has hundreds of Db2 Table they would like to virtualize. Currently each Db2 Table has to be mapped individually using the DVM studio.
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Functionality already exists

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

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

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

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