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SPSS Modeler

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Parameters with storage "List"

I would like to have the ability to define parameters (stream and session parameters) that are stored as lists.
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

SPSS handling of Foreign characters

Data being extracted from a data warehouse contain foreign characters. There are characters are not part of the world writing systems. Any attempt to load these datasets to a Netezza Database always fails
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

merge node: join small local dataset to large remote dataset by sending the local data literally in the sql query

In a merge node, when joining a small local dataset to a large remote database table, Modeler downloads the entire contents of the large table in order to perform the join. This is often prohibitive. Instead, if the local dataset is small enough (...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Push Back for Gooogle BigQuery

I want to be able to push back in BigQuery when selecting data. I want to read and write if possible
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Modify External loader to treat blanks as null or blanks with Check box

Today the external loader will insert nulls for blanks. This changes the data if the source file has it as blanks and not the target has it as nulls.. Now downstream processes have to change their logic to check for nulls instead of blanks. I prop...
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Modeler should provide user interface for specifying proxy information and support proxies which require authentication.

Currently Modeler offers no support for proxy servers for accessing the Extension hub or for accessing online help documentation. For proxy servers which do not require authentication you can specify Java properties to specify the proxy host and p...
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

About modeler client and Modeler server connection display

Launch the Modeler client.When starting the Modeler client, the display on the lower left side of Modeler's screen is a disconnected server connection.Open the stream. Log in to the server. The display on the lower left of Modeler's screen will be...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Support round-robin DNS for redundant licensing

We have a campus license and hundreds of copies of SPSS. When you set up a redundant license manager for SPSS, currently you must specify all license managers separated with a ~ character. It would be nice if the license manager could retrieve thi...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Want the TImestamp to accept fraction of 6 nanoseconds in SPSS Modeler v16 and v17 or latest.

I have experienced an issue with the use of milli/nano seconds as a timestamp value. I wish it can be looked at and resolved ASAP. I 've also log a case to the IBM Supports team on the 29 May 2018 . Case number: TS000968201. In surrmary, In SP...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

log rotation does not specify the requirment

If the customer does not have write access to the folder that creates the log, the customer knows that it will not be logged. However, the manual log rotation does not specify the required authority for the folder in which the log is created.As a ...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration