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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Allow regression parameters to be entered in scientific format through GUI dialog box

When performing nonlinear regression (and possibly elsewhere) it is currently only possible to enter initial parameter estimates in the range -99999 to 999999. If a starting value outside this range is desired, it must be entered by editing the sy...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Support for dynamically deriving/substituting database schema for UDF calls

The requested features allows to dynamically invoke UDFs (User Defined Functions) within the data source as part of expressions where prefixing of schema is necessary on the db server.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to specify "with replacement" random sampling in complex samples

In SPSS complex samples in the Statistics product you can choose to do "With Replacement" random sampling when creating the sampling plan, This option does not appear to be available in the Clementine complex samples implementation. Can we please ...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Test and provide documentation on using Vertica native load balancer for PA 9.1.4

The IPVS load balancer is not supported for Vertica 7.2.3 which is embedded in PA 9.1.4, only the Vertica native load balancer. In some cases we have seen high loads on the Vertica database which has stopped the spread daemon on a node and occasio...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Support "=" in task ResourcePreference

Allow customer to specify a resource requirement string like "intexnode=1" in task ResourcePreference class
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

Disable auto-refresh functionality for all users on Infosphere Datastage Director

Customer want to stop the "auto-refresh" option of Datastage Director Client for all users connecting to a Windows machine. He already know about the StopRefresh keyword under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/IBM/InformationServer... but this is only va...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Apache Drill connector for Cognos Analytics

Wells Fargo is in the process of expanding the use of their MapR Hadoop environment to a larger community within Wells Fargo. Potential additional Cognos users could be in the thousands. They are looking for a business analytics solution for their...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

IIS 11.5.0.1 DATASTAGE - AMAZON S3 Stage enhancement

Request is for 2 folds all in the AMAZON S3 stage 1. Enable the stage to support proxy settings 2. Server side encryption does not allow Client's to put their server side encryption id as part of their key management system policy in their buckets
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Data Modules - Data Source Sort and Filter Functionality

When adding data sources to a data module, the listing of uploaded files (or data servers, etc) can be very large. Right now, there is no organization of this list. If you could add a folder structure to that result set, or filtering, that would h...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide for Custom Attributes via SAML Authentication

Some customers that need SSO for Cognos Analytics in the Cloud are using SAML as an interim. However, they also need to have the ability to configure custom attributes for authentication.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration