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SPSS Modeler

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Export XGBOOST models as PMML

XGboost models are becoming very popular and it's odd that it can't be exported as pmml like most of Modeler models
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Improve documentation for CLEF nodes

I want to develop new CLEF nodes (not Python nodes -- its performance is very bad), but the documentation is scarce. Please improve the CLEF nodes documentation, add a section to create SQL Pushback with CLEF, add more source code examples, etc.
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 3 Not under consideration

"Data Smoother" regression line on plot node isn't able to add value with binary data

When trying to visually understand the relationship between a boolean value compared to a continuous numeric feature, the default and only choice for "data smoothing" is a LOESS regression line. It produces only a line that jumps between both bina...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Enhanced error messaging when loading external data sources to the input node, specifically SAS datasets with data issues

Currently, there is little to no error messaging given for loading data from SAS datasets containing data that is unable to load. In our case, a SAS dataset dimply fails with no message regarding a large dataset with a single row containing data t...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

SpSS modeler Cognos node multiline text in a single cell

A customer of ours uses a Cognos node in SPSS Modeler 18 to access data in Cognos 10. The returned data contains carriage returns/Line Feed character. This results in Cognos that the text being shown as multiline. Getting this data into SPSS model...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Offline context sensitive help stored locally

This feature will be useful for users who work offline or in the environment isolated from the Internet. These users cannot use a context help for Modeler.
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Not under consideration

Node Export to SQL: TRUNCATE instead of DELETE

Export to SQL node has an option to delete existing rows. This option creates a SQL statement with DELETE command, which is slow. It could be useful an option to TRUNCATE instead of DELETE.
about 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Accept field arguments for oneof function

The function oneof() accepts lists of string values. However these values have to be fixed; it cannot be a list of fields that have string storage type. This is a serious limitation to the product & the use of oneof.
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Documentation for @AVE function

@AVE function is not existing in Expression Builder's function list and there is no description about this function in Modeler documentation. Currently sample stream condlearn.str which used in Modeler Tutorial has a derive node which uses @AVE fu...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 3 Not under consideration

Support for DB2 v12 for z/OS

Need for a customer to use SPSS Modeler with data stored in DB2 version 12 on Z/OS. Some test that have been conducted by the customer show that using the provided odbc driver (which supports up to v11.1) seems to work perfectly. However, official...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration