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enhancing the procedure for estimating alpha Reliability

I just sent an article ms. related to reliability estimation. One of the main (accidental) results is that the procedure used in SPSS (listwise omitting) is misleading and VERY unstable against the missing values. When using the listwise selection...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Profile support for new KEY LABEL option

KEY LABEL will likely be implemented at the application area, which means that there could be hundreds/thousands of objects impacted. The current solution presented is: User objects - Set a key label using SQL interfaces (V12R1M502) • ALTER / CRE...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Oracle fastload Refresh method does not do intermediate commits

When doing a Refresh to Oracle using the fastload method, no intermediate commits are done. That means that all records are loaded to the target table before committing the transaction (and the fastload_refresh_commit_after_max_operations paramete...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Increase the limit of 100 ckpts entries in BSDS

BACKOUT YES specifies the recovery of objects to a prior point in time by a log-only backout. No image copy is restored, it uses the log to backout changes made since the log point that is specified in the TOLOGPOINT or TORBA options. So we sugges...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Stemming instead of lemmatization for exact match search in Spanish

Customer needs exact match search, same as WeX Content Analytics. R&D teams has given a manual workaround that has to be carried out for all projects. It solved some issues such as Spanish accents and missing characters, but there are still ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Field translation issues

Previously in some fields (MCC for example) we would only see the MCC in field hovering over would give us the explanation. Now all within text box (Problem due to what now was 4 digit column has to be a sentence, meaning less overall data on scre...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

ALTER INDEX disable/enable feature

Oracle supports disabling index in ALTER INDEX command. Disabling an index means that the index still exists in the database, but it is not included in the optimizer. It would be also helpful in Db2 when find out the optimal Index.
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Column header on excel extractions

The extraction to Excel function directly from IBM PA is heavily used, so that the pivot function can be used to in Excel for better flexibility. However, the output of the extract does not show the dimension in the header of the columns, which me...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IIDR Apply Engine for Kafka should pick up and inject client.id via kafkaproducer.properties configuration.

See case number: TS002220107 for details. As detailed in the case client.id is read from kafkaproducer.properties. The property injects into ConsumerConfig for all data channels. The property does not inject into ProducerConfig for data channels....
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add options for "recommend indexes" and "evaluate indexes" explain types to explain_from_section

When running explains from jupyter notebook, I prefer to use EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. However for in-depth analysis of indexes, I need the RECOMMEND INDEXES and EVALUATE INDEXES explain modes. These don't seem to exist for EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. This ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration