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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Connector to SPSS Modeler on CP4D read flat files with fixed sizes and not delimited

We need to provide the connector in CP4D to read fixed-size flat files, similar to the one available in the SPSS modeler classic out of the CP4D.
about 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Submitted

Kerberos authentication support for Impala in Data Refinery

Client's main data source is Kerberised Impala cluster. It is very important to have access to this data source from CPD. For now it looks like they can't use Watson (Data Refinery) and SPSS for their project.
about 2 months ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Submitted

Feature Request – Store Job Schedule Information in Repository Database

We propose that IBM Optim should provide an option to store job schedule definitions directly in the repository database, alongside other metadata. This would allow: - Automatic inclusion of schedules in repository backups. - Easier migration of s...
4 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Dynamic Number of Time Series Forecasted in Watson Studio SPSS Modeler Flow

There is need to be able to run a forecasting job even if the amount of timeseries changes (without going to the modeler to manually select a Type for each series). This can happen (but is not limited to) when using MDX to import data from IBM Pla...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

Enable shell command to recall the archive file stored in Centera storage

In a scenario where the customer gets an audit request to retrieve the older data stored in the archive file and copied over to Centera storage, for a given date range, the customer currently has to use the "Recall complete file" option through Op...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Submitted

PostgreSQL for Optim Directory

Customer prefers PostgreSQL
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Submitted

Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Request Optim to support Java 11 as Java 8 is no longer supported.

Currently Optim only allows for Java 8 which is no longer allowed to be used at the client site.
almost 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Future consideration

Optim to make use of REST API / S3 protocol instead CIFS protocol

The problem statement is below: OPTIM is unable the read any archive file from HCP device (cifs protocol used) and this has become more frequent for the past two weeks. The archive file written locally can be retrieved without any IO Error. The Op...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Future consideration

SQL Pushback/Write watsonx.data (presto) with SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio

Pain point: Modeler User cannnot analyze large data on watsonx.data(presto), since SQL Pushback is'nt supported Workaround: Copy the data on watsonx.data to the other RDB. But there is almost no advantage to use watsonx.data. Benefit: Modeler user...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Future consideration