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change the specification of SPSS Modeler 18.1 around the SQL statement syntax check while accessing to Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Requirement We’d like you to change the specification of SPSS Modeler 18.1 around the SQL statement syntax check while accessing to Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Currently Modeler uses the stored procedure called “sp_prepare “ which has big overhead ...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Distribute custom nodes without disclosing the logic of the custom nodes

want a way to distribute custom nodes without disclosing the logic of the custom nodes. Currently, when custom nodes are distributed, people can see the logic of the node. want a way to distribute custom nodes without disclosing the logic, for exa...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Python (not Python for Spark) for python extension node needed.

want to use Python (not Python for Spark) for python extension node. pySpark has a quite big overhead. SparkDataFrame is not popular than pandas dataframe.
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Planned for future release

LSF must not ignore empty groups if they are managed by egroup

When running `badmin reconfig`, LSB ignores lines with empty groups: Aug 25 16:22:20 2025 11385 4 10.1 do_Groups: File /opt/lsf/conf/lsbatch/XXXX/configdir/lsb.users at line 50: No valid member in group <XXXX>; ignoring line this is ok for g...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information

Python scripts should be minimized as short as R boilerplate statements.

can use Python 3 from extension nodes and custom node dialog builder. However, compared to R, Python has a lot of boilerplate statements. It would be nice if Python could be scripted in the same way as R, with a minimum of boilerplate statements. ...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

SPSS Modeler 18.1.1 on Windows's support for a data source PostgreSQL on RHEL

System: SPSS Modeler 18.1.1 Actor: User needing a PostgreSQL data source to support SPSS Modeler on Windows platform as well as a current Linux support Description: In Japan, there are many PostgreSQL users including the customer for this request ...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

When we try to read some Excel files into SPSS Modeler v18.5, we get an error saying format is not recognizable.

On Modeler Client 18.5, When we try to read some excels(image-1) filled with personal information like the one below in SPSS 18.5, we get an error saying format is not recognizable.(image-2) The same excel is read without any problems in 18.1. We ...
10 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Enable in-DB scoring adapter compatibility for Snowflake (in order to get model SQL)

I ran a TwoStep-AS model in SPSS Modeler, and would like to see the SQL behind the mode goes into each cluster generation (ie, which criteria defines each modeled cluster), but this is apparently not possible with Snowflake as the base. Would like...
5 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

support job submission from standalone container

currently, when trying to submit a job from a standalone we have a eauth error: Oct 15 17:37:44 2024 1467470 3 10.1 isRetryErrorType: Error type <79> is not defined in LSB_BSUB_ERR_RETRY. Failed in an LSF library call: External authenticatio...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release