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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 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

Support reading a CLOB field at least from DB2

Currently we have to cast a CLOB field as VARCHAR in order to read it into modeler from a DB2 source, and then we only get the first N characters. Please support reading entire CLOB as a string of size at least 256K characters or preferably more o...
4 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Re-usable Supernodes -- multiple instances of same one can occur in stream but modifying it immediately modifies all instances. Like a callable Function/Subroutine/Macro in programming languages.

Often we want to perform the same set of operations ("sub-flow") in multiple places in the stream, e.g. for similar/parallel data either from different data sources, or destined for different output or export nodes. It is essential that the *same*...
4 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Add Catalog filter to Display Duplicate Assets

Original title: Display Duplicate Assets in publish job logs. Original Description: When viewing the logs for a metadata publish job in IKC, the number of duplicate assets is displayed, but the assets themselves are not. It would be useful to know...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Display logical names of columns in the overview of data assets in a catalog.

The Data Assets screen in the catalog has a list of columns, with column descriptions and business terms, and I would like to be able to display the logical names there in a separate box. I proposed the idea of using the description or business te...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Show "My parameter" Icon in Dashboard

We would like to use a global parameter in a Framework package and use this package in a Dashboard as source. But, when we run a Dashboard, the icon "My Parameters" is hidden. Actually, the users have to go to the home page to change parameter val...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Add Column PSUSP to Job Group Output and Allow Filtering by Name Similar to Job Name filtering in "bjobs"

For our user community, Jobs that go into PSUSP are important for the flow owners to investigate and our flow owners are using Job Groups. The inability to easily see the number of Jobs that are in PSUSP is limiting the effectiveness in the use of...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Resource connector provider configuration file ( such as cyclecloudprov_config.json) should have encrypted passwords/credentials

Security leak will be avioded. Clear text password are risky to put;.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Get available VM count value from cyclecloud provider for resource connector templates using badmin rc view -c templates command

It would be useful if quota from the Azure backend is completely used, LSF admins can easily check if VMs are available in the quota from Azure.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

System Audit Log - Detailed Extract

Quarterly SOX compliance requires detail (Company, Account, Amount) found when clicking "show details" button for each modified form within System Audit Log for a given period. Currently manually opening each entry to verify amendments made by spe...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration