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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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Python (not Python for Spark) for python extension node needed.

want to use Python (not Python for Spark) for python extension node. pySpark has a quite big overhead. SparkDataFrame is not popular than pandas dataframe.
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Planned for future release

Separate configuration files from attachment files

The settings and attachment files are together on the file server and there is no way to distinguish them, we need a way to distinguish between the 2 types of filessystem configuration files together with attached files can even be included in a n...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Python scripts should be minimized as short as R boilerplate statements.

can use Python 3 from extension nodes and custom node dialog builder. However, compared to R, Python has a lot of boilerplate statements. It would be nice if Python could be scripted in the same way as R, with a minimum of boilerplate statements. ...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Add Date Picker on Questionnaire Template questions

Can we add Date Picker on Questionnaire Template questions along with options like single choice, multiple choice etc.?
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Allow Admin user to Preview different role/user access

Currently changing profiles as an admin user to different role-based profiles provides some indication that group membership, roles & profiles are working as designed. However, they also allow visibility to objects that the profile wouldn't se...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

SPSS Modeler 18.1.1 on Windows's support for a data source PostgreSQL on RHEL

System: SPSS Modeler 18.1.1 Actor: User needing a PostgreSQL data source to support SPSS Modeler on Windows platform as well as a current Linux support Description: In Japan, there are many PostgreSQL users including the customer for this request ...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

When we try to read some Excel files into SPSS Modeler v18.5, we get an error saying format is not recognizable.

On Modeler Client 18.5, When we try to read some excels(image-1) filled with personal information like the one below in SPSS 18.5, we get an error saying format is not recognizable.(image-2) The same excel is read without any problems in 18.1. We ...
10 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Control over grid view column widths

We're finding grid views / embedded grid views have disproportionate column widths (in terms of reader usability/readability). This often impacts us on fields such as Name and Description. If we had the ability to define the column widths ourselve...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration

Enable in-DB scoring adapter compatibility for Snowflake (in order to get model SQL)

I ran a TwoStep-AS model in SPSS Modeler, and would like to see the SQL behind the mode goes into each cluster generation (ie, which criteria defines each modeled cluster), but this is apparently not possible with Snowflake as the base. Would like...
5 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Workflow Instance termination & start needs improvement

Using the workflow instances view to terminate workflow instances is not user-friendly. suggest the following improvements: Allow for search/filter and sort by Object Name and Workflow Version. If a user selects objects using the checkboxes, then ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Not under consideration