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SPSS Statistics

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Installing SPSS license by creating manually license file (lservrc)

With SPSS Statistics v 28.0.1.1 it seems to be not possible anymore to install SPSS license by manually copy the lservrc-file to the SPSS product installation directory. The user needs admin rights in order at least for first time push the license...
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...
over 8 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...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Official support for Microsoft W10 Azure Cloud VM's

Case #TS004516282 As I previously told that Azure is not officially supported platform for SPSS Statistics. Azure is not a tested environment for SPSS Statistics. That's why I wanted to see if it could work somehow on your platform because some un...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

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 New software should not force the user to use an outdated and unsupported OS, as it involv...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

SPSS need to work with a DQM environment

There is no work around for this issue. We are getting more and more customers asking to use SPSS and we can't offer it to them as a workable solution. This definitely needs to be addressed soon. Check with Michael on history of SPSS and Cognos da...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Spell check for comments in syntax editor

When commenting syntax in SPSS it's very frustrating that it doesn't spell-check (even the web browser I'm using does this!). This should be applied narrowly to comments only. At the moment, if I'm heavily commenting code, I will copy/paste it to ...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Need a way to identify row and column indexes of cell in OMS output

If an table in SPSS output empty cells, there is no way to identify, what is column index in OMS output.For example create a table using ONEWAY command. The Post Hoc table contains a lot of empty cells and there is no way to know row and column in...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Add function to sort Expiration Date on License Key Center

Our Business Partner sells customers instead of us.Because of that they ordered many contracts every day. In the case of Term License, for example, they would like to generate authcodes which associated with entitlement's expiration date (ex. 31st...
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration