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Analytics Engine

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User permission to view Analytics for specific APIs only(API Connect)

The reference is taken from API Connect 2018 4.1.8 VMWARE version. Currently a user who is logged in to API Manager can view Analytics data for all APIs. So a user would be knowing the details of all the transaction. So certain users should be a...
about 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Error message change required while attempting to create a service on Lite Plan

Customers are trying to create an Analytics Engine service on a Lite Plan and see the following error: "[500, Internal Server Error] Service provisioned failed. Try again later. You will now be redirected to the console dashboard."
over 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Make prompt names and values in "View versions" copiable

We have many complex reports with a lot of prompts. In case of customer support (we are a service provider) we need to copy the names and the values out of the "View versions"-area to compare parameters from different report executions to find out...
over 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Add support for pyarrow in spark environment in watson studio

Add support for pyarrow in spark environment in watson studio
almost 5 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Install netstat & Tcpdump by default.

Netstat and tcpdump are useful for customers to troubleshoot any network issue. In BiOC, we have it installed by default. Its missing in IAE. Can we include that as part of the cluster itself? Thank you!
almost 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Document how to setup hive for acid transactions

HDInsight make it super easy to use Hive ACID transactions - can we make it easier for users to setup hive transactions on Analytics Engine? https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azuredatalake/2017/04/06/azure-hdinsight-3-6-five-things-that-will-mak...
almost 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Extend policy and rule enforcement to Analytics Engine

Analytics Engine components such as Hive are an important part of the Data Lake story. Without Hive, external users are unable to query data in IBM Cloud Object Storage. However, Analytics Engine is not integrated with Watson Knowledge Catalog. T...
almost 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Document how to configure Hive LLAP

Hive LLAP provides large performance improvements. Can we add to the IAE documentation how to configure it? Azure make this especially easy by provide LLAP by default with certain cluster types - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hdinsight/i...
almost 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Support cataloging Hive data in IBM Analytics Engine

Hive is a popular interface for querying data in the WDP. It is desirable that this data can be catalogued.
about 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 7 Not under consideration

Provide functionality to pause a cluster to suspend runtime charges when the cluster is not in use

Sometimes, I only need to use a cluster for a one-off task that may run for a few days or more. I would like to be able to pause these clusters when I am not using them to suspend charges. The clusters usually have some configuration that I do man...
about 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration