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Include the Parameter Long Name in the "Parameters" tab of a Job Step

In IBM SPSS Modeler, the user can define stream parameters that can be used in the nodes in various ways. This is extremely useful when creating streams that serve as 'templates' for different, but similar, purposes.Each parameter has a name, whic...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Excel Data Export should consider Framework Manager settings (e.g. currency)

The Excel data export functionality not only ignores the settings in the report (ok) but also from the model (not ok). Even if a currency is defined for a measure in the model, the export will use the currency symbol corresponding to the logon lan...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need documentation for Statistics Server failure codes when jobstep submitted from C&DS

Sometimes an SPSS Statistics jobstep submitted from C&DS fails. In the output log for C&DS all that the end user knows is that the job failed and they see error codes like "-1", "-2", "-3", etc. However there is no documentation on what th...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Able to set MAP REDUCE PARAMETERS WHILE SUBMITTING A YARN JOB USING DSXHI

Yarn Container sizes are usually maintained as a global parameter with in cloudera. At times, these parameters need set by the client submitting the Yarn Job. This will not be an issue if the code submitted by the client is using livy/spark. howev...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Planned for future release

Facility to monitor and control Accelerated threads

need for monitoring and controlling accelerated threads like is currently available with db2 threads using RLF
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

On dashboard lists visualizations sort nulls at end of list.

When sorting a column on a dashboard list, provide the option to sort null values to the end of the list.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve auto-prompting for Data Modules

Auto-prompts seem to leverage the underlying data type of the table/database. That's fairly short-sighted since numeric types can be used to represent non-metric data. For example the year or the month number of a time table. It's perfectly valid ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

cloud storage capability

SPSS does not have the functionality to retrieve and/or save data and output to the cloud. This seems way out of date and should be easily correctable. The measurable benefits would be less complicated logistics in loading and saving files and tim...
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 3 Not under consideration

Remember UserID at Login to Repository

It would be very useful if there was an option for the IBM SPSS C&DS Deployment Manager client to remember my preferred User ID when logging in to a content repository.
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Watson Scores Less Than 0.5

When conducting research on the sentiment of tweets, it would be helpful to be able to see the score for each tone even if it is below 0.5.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration