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SPSS Modeler

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Adding xlsx files into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop

You can add excel data source into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop xls file onto Modeler canvas. But you can't add xlsx file in that way. Old xls files are not supported now and IBM recommends to use new xlsx files. So SPSS Modeler should have dra...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Ability to generate PRECISION, RECALL and F1 SCORE models indicators

SPSS Modeler should be able to generate Precision, Recall and F1 Score when evaluation predictive models.
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Create SPSS Product Wide Adminstrative "Dashboard" To Monitor All Active Items Across the Server Environment

Create SPSS "Dashboard" that will monitor all running jobs within Collaborations and Deployment Services (C&DS), Modeler Server, and Statistics Server.
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

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...
9 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*...
9 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Pick Up a New Version of Job Step Automatically

The ability to configure a Job Step to automatically pick up a new version of the underlying asset.I would like to have a setting or property available for a Job Step, where I can indicate whether I want the Job Step to automatically retrieve a ne...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

@MEDIAN

Returns the median of values for FIELD over the last EXPR records received by the current node, including the current record. It is similart to @MEAN https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spss-modeler/18.4.0?topic=reference-sequence-functions#clem_functio...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Intelligent Data Source and Credentials Replacement in Job Steps

Whenever a job step is created based on an IBM SPSS Modeler stream, the user has to specify the resources to use for the ODBC DSN and Credentials for each ODBC data source/export node in the underlying stream.Each selection requires a minimum of 6...
over 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Allow SPSS Modeler Flow to read parquet file stored in storage volume (NFS) in CPD

Allow SPSS Modeler Flow to read parquet file stored in storage volume (NFS) in CPD We have CPD 4.5.0 running on on-premises BareMetal OCP4.10 Cluster. The customer is using SPSS modeler flows and they would like to import data stored in parquet fo...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Have the ability of changing resource definition credentials programmatically instead of through the Deployment Manager Client

This would allow admins to change the spss resource definition passwords using automation, rotating them more frequently and making the accounts used in the application more secure.
11 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Future consideration