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SPSS Statistics

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Support for Cognos Analytics 11.2 and above

We have been using SPSS Statistics connecting to our legacy data warehouse. We have moved out datasources to Cognos Analytics and user will only be able to access datasources through Cognos. However SPSS statistics is not compatible with Cognos An...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future 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 New software should not force the user to use an outdated and unsupported OS, as it involv...
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

AMOS for Mac

Hello, I hope you will develop AMOS for Mac version and consider some people who use Mac.
about 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Installing SPSS license by creating manually license file (lservrc)

With SPSS Statistics v 28.0.1.1 it seems to be not possible anymore to install SPSS license by manually copy the lservrc-file to the SPSS product installation directory. The user needs admin rights in order at least for first time push the license...
about 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

resizing the window

Annoying that SPSS keeps altering the Output window size and position after every analysis.
over 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Functionality already exists

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 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Implementation of an option for "Windows Integrated Login" in SDAP-ODBC Driver for Sybase IQ Wire

Still SDAP 8.0 Driver for "Sybase IQ Wire" works fine in SPSS Database Wizard, but needs a Database-Account to be typed in. Our Customer only works in an Windows AD Domain and must use "Windows Integrated Login"-Feature - there is no specific user...
over 4 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 9 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 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Future support on non persistent VDI platform

In the past year, I get the sense that there is a growing demand for VDI platform for SPSS. the VMWare Horizon seems to be more common. I have encountered an issue with Stats v. 28.0.1.1 when installing it on a non-persistent VDI platform: It seem...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration