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Watson Query

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Support of streaming/parsing/converting CLOB/BLOB type data structures in DV for larger data elements such as binary images that reside as objects on an S3

Requirement Integrated Governance In order to be able to use the CP4D Data Virtualization in combination with Watson Knowledge Catalog as a single, integrated governance layer over structured data (residing in Databases / Flat files) and unstructu...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

Propagation of Indexes for Virtualized Tables to SYSCAT.INDEXES

Watson Query (WQ) is based on IBM's decades-old federation technology (DataJoiner, et al). In Federation Indexes on remote objects are propagated back to Db2 and populate SYSCAT.INDEXES. These Index specifications help inform the federated server ...
10 months ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

Add data masking support for BLOB columns

We have some RTF data loaded into the new DB2 Warehouse environment as a BLOB column in table UDF_CIS_RAW_DV.SXACDCLIENTDOCDETAILTEXT_GUID_DETAILTEXT and we're able to extract it back into an RTF by casting the DetailText field as varbinary, but w...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

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

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

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

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

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

Allow custom certificates for DB2 exposed by Data Virtualization

Hello, We are trying to connect via PowerBI to the db2 exposed by dv but the connection fails because of the certificates. These certificates are not complete and do not contain any host information. PowerBI cannot use them. The connection without...
about 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

Prevent duplicate Virtual Table Names from being created

We have had numerous cases where our users are creating virtual tables with the exact same name as previously created ones causing confusion and data rule failure. The source no longer exists but now we have to go delete old ones. Is there a way t...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration