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SPSS Modeler

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Allowing user to set how many number of lines should be scan to determined field data type when importing *.xlsx file

With the current design, for .xlsx format excel files only first 200 rows are scanned to determine the field type, if no data presented in the first 200 rows, then that column is deemed as a numerical field by default. So, when importing data with...
over 3 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...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 3 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.
over 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 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...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Enable TLS 1.2 and automatically disable TLS 1.0/1.1 due to security vulnerability

Information Security vulnerability scan of SPSS Modeler servers show TLS 1.0/1.1 are currently enabled and need disabled ASAP by enabling TLS 1.2 or higher. This is an urgent request where security vulnerabilities require remediation with highest ...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under 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.
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Subscription use of xgboost, connection to database, faster scoring

See TS008162326. Using Subscription not able to use XGBOOST or connect thru to a database even after installing SDAP drivers. Scoring using ensemble models is very slow. IBM has not installed or opened up full optimization configurations in the su...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Addition of a function that can output both pre-establishment and posterior probabilities

My customer wants to add a function that can output the establishment (pre - establishment) of the original data on the node of Modeler such as Bayesian network.
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Enable SQL Pushback for SPSS Modeler using Cognos Packages

Enable SQL Pushback for SPSS Modeler using Cognos Packages. Today if we use Cognos packages as a source for SPSS Modeler then performance isn't nearly as good as going directly to the database due to the lack of SQL pushback. Using Cognos packages...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration