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Support for PostgresSQL

Many organisations use PostgresSQL databases, it would be good if SPSS Statistics had official support for this datasource.
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Allow editing X axis of violin chart

If I am making a violin chart for a variable where the values follow a certain order, for example, days of the week, I don't have a way to put the chronological order on the X axis.The same thing happens if the values of my variables are ranges, f...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

New system variables $NCASES, $NNUMERIC, and $NSTRING

The following are FAQs in SPSS discussion forums: 1) How can I get the total number of cases in my file? 2) How can I get the total number of variables? For 2, sometimes people may want the number of string variables only or the number of numeric ...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Need a way to identify row and column indexes of cell in OMS output

If an table in SPSS output empty cells, there is no way to identify, what is column index in OMS output.For example create a table using ONEWAY command. The Post Hoc table contains a lot of empty cells and there is no way to know row and column in...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Official support for Microsoft W10 Azure Cloud VM's

Case #TS004516282 As I previously told that Azure is not officially supported platform for SPSS Statistics. Azure is not a tested environment for SPSS Statistics. That's why I wanted to see if it could work somehow on your platform because some un...
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

SPSS need to work with a DQM environment

There is no work around for this issue. We are getting more and more customers asking to use SPSS and we can't offer it to them as a workable solution. This definitely needs to be addressed soon. Check with Michael on history of SPSS and Cognos da...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04

Please provide support for current versions of Ubuntu. Version 14.04 is not supported by Canonical anymore. Support for version 16.04 will expire soon, too. New software should not force the user to use an outdated and unsupported OS, as it involv...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

IBM SPSS Statistics concurrent license manager via web portal

Please add a web portal for managing licenses and users instead of the traditional Sentinel RMS LM. The courrent UI style and the tools it provides are outdated and very old fashion. A revision of the current SPSS license tool to be managed via cl...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Spell check for comments in syntax editor

When commenting syntax in SPSS it's very frustrating that it doesn't spell-check (even the web browser I'm using does this!). This should be applied narrowly to comments only. At the moment, if I'm heavily commenting code, I will copy/paste it to ...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Multiple Response Data Calculates Each Response's Base Individually

The proper measurement procedure for items that have response options shown based on selection in a prior item is to use selection count from the master item as the base size on a per response basis.
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration