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SPSS Modeler

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Changing the Color of Comments

I would like to have an easier and faster way to change the background and the foreground colors of comments in the stream and within supernodes.Right-clicking on the comment to select the colors from a shortcut menu would be very useful.In the cu...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

"@ Functions" to SQL Query

SPSS Modeler does not support all the "@ functions" when we want to generate the SQL Query from the stream, for example the @OFFSET function. Thus when there is a node which uses this kind of function the stream is out of "SQL mode" and then is pr...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

More statistics in aggregations

The aggregation node allow to calculate some statistic such a average, median, 1st quartile etc.It would be very nice to add 5th percentile and 95th percentile, my clients usually asks for those statistics.
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Add option to process milliseconds in Time Format

SPSS Modeler does not currently support milliseconds within a time stamp field. This is a commonly used format in our line of business that currently affects 150 users, and growing. The current workaround is to convert the time stamp field into ...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Single Sign-On from SPSS Modeler to IBM Cognos

Currently, when using the IBM Cognos BI node it is necessary to provide Cognos gateway URI, namespace, user name and password to login to the Cognos environment. This is a manual logon process. There are other Non-Browser/SDK based clients (e.g. F...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

[Tool] - [Repository] - [Explore] - [Repository] screen behavior

When changing the width of the window or changing the column width such as the name or version, there is a time lag of several seconds without moving immediately. When expanding the window, the window display may not be displayed correctly.
over 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Allowing user to set how many number of lines should be scan to determined field data type when importing *.xlsx file

With the current design, for .xlsx format excel files only first 200 rows are scanned to determine the field type, if no data presented in the first 200 rows, then that column is deemed as a numerical field by default. So, when importing data with...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Excel Export node with append option

Currently, we need to generate an Excel file with historical data processed periodically with a Modeler stream as a batch execution. The Excel file should append the data each time, not overwriting. The node can write an existing file, but always ...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Ability to export estimated coefficients and adjustment statistics into a table from the SPSS Modeler stream

Our prospect would like to export all the estimated coefficients of a predictive model and all the adjustment statistics (such as R2, error %...) into a physical table.This is a standard features that SAS has using the OUTEST= option for their sta...
about 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Model Evaluation for Numeric and Categorical Dependent Variables

SPSS Modeler has ability to show analysis model evaluation metrics such as RMSE, MAPE, MAE for numeric dependent variables and Balanced Accuracy, F-Measure for categorical dependent variables in Analysis Node.
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration