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Include both STAR JOIN and MERGE DATA in menu

In SPSS version 25 the STAR JOIN function was removed from the menu. STAR JOIN still works, but can not be found anymore in the menu under Data – Merge Files – Add Variables as in previous versions of SPSS. Under Data – Merge Files – Add Variables...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 2 Not under consideration

bhosts and lshosts should have an option to let them perform more like the scheduler

Currently, if I have a host with two exclusive resources in the lsf.cluster file <hostname> <model> <type> 1 () () () (!res1 !res2) If I run the following bhosts command, it acts like "grep" instead of like the scheduler, and rep...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

In the world of Multi-core processors, the context switches per second has become a KPI. It should be a standard performance metric like mem, r1m, etc.

When we try to oversubscribe hosts, it would be very beneficial to have ctx/second available as a base metric. It's available in all OS' these days. We could set a busy threshold for that say above 40k/second. For the longest time (maybe 31 years)...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Please Log the Pre and Post Exec Runtimes in MBD and through Events

The Pre-exec start event is logged, but there is no event for the post exec. So, it's almost impossible for us to track the runtimes of post exec without adding additional layers to our external reporting. We would prefer these metrics to be track...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Full Information Maximum Likelihood method(Estimation method to assign missing values)

I would like to see "Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML)" added as a missing value assignment method in SPSS Statistics. FIML is a powerful method for handling missing data in statistical modeling. By using all available information in the ...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Split License Scheduler log files

License Scheduler does not have the function to split log files(bld.log and blcollect.log). Could you please add a function to split the log file as below? bld.log.hostname bld.log.hostname.1 bld.log.hostname.2 bld.log.hostname.3 blcolle...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

On restrictions on String variables used for 'Grouping Valiable' of 'Independent-Samples T test'

About 'Grouping Valiable' of 'Independent-Samples T test'. Improvement request I would like to use Long String (eg 24 bytes) as 'Grouping Valiable'. In the case of String variable, only variables that variable width is 8 or less can be input to [G...
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Azure Managed Instance SQL Compatibility with SPSS

We would like to request Azure Managed Instance SQL compatibility to the SPSS product line. We need to enable it for SPSS users to access and analyse data in the centrally available Azure Managed Instance (SQL Server) Version 12. The university-wi...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

Data audit in IBM SPSS Statitics

In IBM SPSS Modeler, there is very useful node called Data Audit. It gives you quick and very helpful variable review. In IBM SPSS Statistics there is probably no way how to make this output (chart + basic statistics define by Measure for all vari...
about 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

INQUEUE PREEMPTION

Because "Preemption scheduling" is actually for the jobs in different queues. LSF today has no such feature or concept of in-queue preemption. the new feature maybe work like this: define a INQUEUE_PREEMPT=[[userA,80%] [userB,20%]] ... For example...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration