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SPSS Statistics

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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.
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under 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...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Enrichment of tables production

CTABLES is getting old and has been overtaken by tools like Q Research or GESStabs. I think significant improvements and more features are overdue. We might even need a complete new module. Please see what other software producers developed and tr...
almost 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 The courrent UI style and the tools it provides are outdated and very old fashion.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 1 year 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 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Close without exit

Most software programs allow the user close their work without exiting the program. In SPSS when only one sheet is open there is not option to close, only exit. This affects all users of SPSS. The current setup is cumbersome, being forced to open ...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

Improve ADD/MATCH

Since the dawn of time, ADD CASES and MATCH FILES have required that string variables have the same length across files. This is a frequent problem., especially when the data originated in Excel. It would be very helpful if this limitation were re...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 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...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Sentinel License Manager and extra modules

We have a number of users for SPSS. We use the concurrent license that works with the Sentinel License Manager (SLM). Now it is so that we also use additional modules, such as: bootstrapping, Exact Tests, Advanced Statistics, and we make these mod...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration