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Status Not under consideration
Workspace SPSS Modeler
Components SPSS Modeler
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 4, 2018

SPSS Modeler Ditinctnode Create a composite record for each group specification

When we use "Composite" option in Distinct node, for each field in "Composite" tab, Modeler will create a corresponding aggregate operation behind the scene, based on the definition specified in "Fill with values based on". All these aggregation operations will be fulfilled in memory by default, unless the free memory is not big enough to hold the intermediate results, in which case Modeler will spill the result into disk using temporary files. In case there are many missing values, the result of aggregation operation become unstable. The workaround to this unstable result is to change Modeler to not run in multi-threaded mode. We understand this might has some performance impact and we would like to enhance this feature in future release to handle the case with missing values.