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SPSS Statistics

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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 New software should not force the user to use an outdated and unsupported OS, as it involv...
over 3 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 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Setting to not offer public tables when importing data from a database

This issue is also described here: https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/464796/list-of-tables-when-importing-from-oracle-database.html This might only concern Oracle databases, but possibly others as well. In SPSS one can import data from...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

Save partition variable in Neural Networks procedures

Problem: In some procedures (like Nearest Neighbor analysis) if cases are randomly assigned to the training and holdout samples on the Partitions tab, they can be saved as a new variable with the values of the partition (training or holdout) to wh...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Remotely disconnect

We have a number of users for SPSS. We use the concurrent license that works with the Sentinel License Manager (SLM). For us, it would be interesting to have the possibility to remotely disconnect a user and withdraw the license.
about 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

ROC Analysis should detect and correct dependent variable direction

When running a ROC curve analysis, some of the input curves appear below the null hypothesis. This can be corrected by inverting the values in the independent variable (that is, they were coded opposite the dependent). However, other statistics so...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Group Means

Ability to compute group means with calculation over array of cases in variable (similar to python's: df . groupby ([ 'group' ]). mean ()
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

suggestion for codebook command

SPSS codebook subcommand could use min and max in it.
about 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Sharepoint support

When accessing SharePoint from within SPSS, for example to open or save files, SPSS is extremely slow (much slower then other programs).
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Add more date and time formats

Please do add more date and time formats to the "Variable Type" and Syntax commands. Microsoft Office Excel do support all kind of varieties, SPSS Statistics should too! I know that many users have to engage in complicated string transformation, t...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration