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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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SPSS compatibility with Python

When implementing Python code in SPSS Syntax, using BEGIN PROGRAM, under some conditions, SPSS will enter a silent error if the code has bugs or syntax errors. SPSS does not reflect the error as other IDEs do, and will not release the processor un...
7 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Zoom functionality(viewer) in SPSS 28

Hello together, it would be great to have an additional zoom function in the viewer as well as in SPSS 28 in general instead of change the font size. So that you can zoom like in the browser with CTRL+ and -. Currently PivotTables settings that we...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 2 Future consideration

External Table support for Db2 running on Windows

Db2 running under Linux allows currently to use external tables. For testing, production use, migration and completeness those feature should also be available for the Windows (and other OS) platform. Especially as this is a potential replacement ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Lift the restriction for max 8 charaters in database name

The restriction of a maximum of 8 characters in a database name should be lifted to something more adequate for todays devops pipelines, say 32, 64 or even 128 chars. There is a need to give databases a more descriptive name than what is possible ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

IBM Data Server Runtime Client support on Red Hat OpenShift

We are using Red Hat OpenShift to access "external" Db2 databases. We have a "IBM Data Server Runtime Client" in each container in a OpenShift POD, one or more containers per POD. OpenShift uses overlayFS with overlay2-driver where the the client ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Add URL Shortener to KC Pages

If you try to properly source knowledge center or promote a feature within knowledge center (say via twitter or linked-in), you copy and paste a URL that is easily over 100+ characters long. If you lose the ability to cut/paste (say in the PDF of ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Collaboration & Deployment Services 8.5 ** Job scheduled with summer date run the same hour of summer in winter

Hi, I talk with support and he said me: Generally speaking time zones are based on the different systems. So for instance if your Client system is in one timezone and your server system is another time zone that will affect your schedules. Also ja...
9 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Add other existing summary functions to the Custom Tables interface

In the IBM SPSS Statistics Community, a user has noted that the UVALIDN is not displayed as a choice for a summary function in the Custom Tables user interface, even though other unweighted summary functions are presented there. The IBM SPSS Stati...
10 months ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Submitted

Reorg pending status should be in a table like SYSCAT.TABLES

The column that indicates if a table is in reorg-peding is in a table that is not in the schame SYSCAT. This value should be in a table in SYSCAT, because this schema is the catalog, and it is almost standard across versions, and it is a set of vi...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Clearer Guideline for free account user and student user

I am from IBM Managed Escalation team. We receive a lot of escalation from student SPSS user and free account user about SPSS subscription not working and account issue, which they could be able to find the answers to easily from FAQ or SPSS docum...
11 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted