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SPSS Modeler

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Support reading a CLOB field at least from DB2

Currently we have to cast a CLOB field as VARCHAR in order to read it into modeler from a DB2 source, and then we only get the first N characters. Please support reading entire CLOB as a string of size at least 256K characters or preferably more o...
3 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Re-usable Supernodes -- multiple instances of same one can occur in stream but modifying it immediately modifies all instances. Like a callable Function/Subroutine/Macro in programming languages.

Often we want to perform the same set of operations ("sub-flow") in multiple places in the stream, e.g. for similar/parallel data either from different data sources, or destined for different output or export nodes. It is essential that the *same*...
3 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Setting the data type in the data asset node of Modeler Flow

When handling numeric data in CSV, values with a large number of digits are judged to be invalid records because they fall outside the Int32 range. From the customer's point of view, this data itself is not abnormal, and there are cases where the...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under 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 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

Extension Output Node for Python with Graph Output tab like R

We would like to create a graph in an Extension Output Node using Python libraries such as matplotlib or seaborn. Currently, when we connect to the Modeler Server from the Modeler Client and run the node, the graph is not output and the stream pr...
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Planned for future release

Documentation about custom node dialog builder

need documentation about custom node dialog builder. When developing custom nodes with custom node dialog builder, variables such as modelerData and modelerDataModel (SPSS reserved words) are handled, but there is not much documentation on how to ...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

Manipulating a custom node from a stream script

want to manipulate a custom node from a stream script. Currently, it is possible to create a custom node from a stream script using "createAt", but it is not possible to set the value using "setPropertyValue". Since custom nodes cannot be manipula...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Driver and stub object of spss.pyspark.runtime to be eased developing Python extension.

It is difficult to develop on extension nodes or custom node dialog builder. want a driver object for development. I'd like to write a code with the other IDE such as VSCode or Pycharm outside of Modeler. So I request the driver and stub object of...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Copy Streams

When using SPSS Modeler, data scientists may want to use existing streams as a base, or just copy them as backups. This is not possible (SPSS Modeler in CP4D), the only workaround is to export to local str-file and create a new Stream using the ex...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

Enable to add custom first names to the underlying language dictionaries

Security organizations would like to analyze reports, in these reports officers often use partial person names (only last names for example). In SPSS Text Analytics there in an extraction option for "Group partial and full person names together", ...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Text Analytics 1 Not under consideration