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SPSS Modeler

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Save the login password in Cognos (tm1) node over multiple sessions

When using SPSS Modeler to get data from Cognos the customer would like to store the login details into the stream, preferably not on a per node basis. There stream connects multiple times to Cognos to get different sets of data. At the moment (V1...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Standalone deployed SPSS Modeler Stream

For current deployment for on-demand application using SPSS Modeler, there is no easier way to share with our SPSS application users as standalone application besides creating a webpage as interface between user entries and SPSS CNDS/Modeler Serve...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Query TM1 non-numeric measures

I am working on a proof of concept within SPSS Modeler that queries TM1 data, models future expenses, and loads the forecast back into TM1. We are close to finishing the POC, but we need to be able to query non-numeric measures from TM1 to complet...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 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 ...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Provide checkbox for opting-in/out of default discarding of nulls

When a Select node is in 'Discard' mode, current default behavior is to discard rows where all fields referred to in selection criteria are null. This behavior seems counterintuitive. Avoiding it requires writing extra code to retain the nulls. Ho...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Specify how many records to parse to determine storage type with an Excel file

Currently, Modeler reads the first 50 rows of an Excel file to determine storage. I have seen many customers wish that they could determine the amount of rows to read in - as sometimes they have missing values for the first 100 records, and the st...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0

stripchar() function requires use of accent grave instead of quotes (I'm not making this up!)

When attempting to use the stripchar() function in a DERIVE node to remove spaces, dashes and parentheses from a phone number string field, I encountered an error: failed to apply operator or function to argument types stripchar(SYMBOL,SYMBOL). Th...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Salesforce connector: support Loyalty Cloud module

A few months ago the need to access the Salesforce platform via SPSS emerged, in particular the Loyalty Cloud module, which was recently released on the market. Loyalty Cloud objects are available starting from version 51 of the APIs but, actually...
almost 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Caching TM1 Server authentication with TM1 nodes

To limit resource consumption, network traffic and requests of the TM1 server, Modeler should cache the authentication portion of the TM1 Server communication for reuse during the current session. Authentication should happen once per 'session' ra...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

database function manual

The database functions manual of all database specification does not explanation currently Modeler manuals. Since how to use is not know, Modeler User is confusion. Please explanation the database functions of all database specification in the Mod...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration