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Improve ADD/MATCH

Since the dawn of time, ADD CASES and MATCH FILES have required that string variables have the same length across files. This is a frequent problem., especially when the data originated in Excel. It would be very helpful if this limitation were re...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

allow LDAP based db2 instance user for PureScale instance creation

Right now instance creation and maintainance in PureScale (db2icrt/db2iupdt) requires that the db2 instance user is local, i.e. has an entry in local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. This expose a huge problem for LDAP based environments like ours whe...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Drill through to Workspace Advanced Including Filters

As in request ID 70197, 70261 and 70004 I would like to see filters passed on drill through. I would also like the drill through to have the option of opening in a relational model in Workspace Advanced.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Closing streams

A very useful functionality would be to be able to close streams with a shortcut (usually ctrl + w). Currently I have to right click on each streams then "close the streams" it's not user friendly.For Mac, Windows also.
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Add IF NOT EXISTS logic to ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT

alter table mytab add constraint if not exists foreign key .... alter table mytab add constraint if not exists primary key .... alter table mytab add constraint if exists drop constraint ....
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Set option on schedule to not send empty reports

It will be much easier if we had option on schedule to enable/disble empty reports send out. Now we can do this via Event Studio but its extra work.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support JSON Output Format for the LSB Stream File

We have a number of downstream uses for the LSB Stream file. One of the downsides of the current format is that it can be difficult to read and parse. If this file where had an options to be written in JSON format, it would be much easier to consu...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

A function that brings up words that are similar in usage from a certain word

< Assumed procedure> (1) Prepare the original word (seed) (including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and sentence expressions if possible)(2) Estimate and output words that are used in the same way as Seed from the input sentences.(3) Check the wo...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Always log error message if TM1 suddenly crashes

Our TM1 server sometimes crashes without any additional information that can be found in the log file. The service just stops working which is visible in the windows event log. But in the TM1 server log no information is available (not which error...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Supporting Modeler @function (@MAX, @MIN, @SINCE, etc) on Analytic Server

Currently since Analytic Sever doesn't support Modeler @function (@MAX, @MIN, @SINCE, etc), the nodes which contain CLEM expression with @function will process locally at Modeler Server side instead of Analytic Server Cluster. This causing a buffe...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

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