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SPSS Modeler

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SpSS modeler Cognos node multiline text in a single cell

A customer of ours uses a Cognos node in SPSS Modeler 18 to access data in Cognos 10. The returned data contains carriage returns/Line Feed character. This results in Cognos that the text being shown as multiline. Getting this data into SPSS model...
about 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Accept field arguments for oneof function

The function oneof() accepts lists of string values. However these values have to be fixed; it cannot be a list of fields that have string storage type. This is a serious limitation to the product & the use of oneof.
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Enable SQL Pushback for SPSS Modeler using Cognos Packages

Enable SQL Pushback for SPSS Modeler using Cognos Packages. Today if we use Cognos packages as a source for SPSS Modeler then performance isn't nearly as good as going directly to the database due to the lack of SQL pushback. Using Cognos packages...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Excel Import to Include all Characteristics of CSV/Text Import

The Excel data source node frequently identifies the data type of a column incorrectly. In the variable and fixed length text import nodes, you can override this behavior under the "Data" tab. This functionality does not exist for Excel. This crea...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Split screen capability for SPSS Modeler

Ability to open secondary stream in a separate windows within the single license.This would enable which can be drag on the secondary monitor. This would allow to either work on two streams at once or monitor one execution while working on secondary.
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

XML Node cannot handle multiple values for a XML element

XML data source picks up the first value for an XML element with multiple values. All other values for the same XML element are ignored. When I use the XPath expression, the fields having multiple value is dropped, and takes on a NULL value. While...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Generating a mapping table from the binning node (as a text file, excel file)

Binning Node Generating a text file with all the results oft he binning data for each variable could help to be more flexible in the modelling and scoring process. If I use the binning node for modelling I also need the binning node for scoring. M...
about 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

My customer would like to use all Python RandomForest function by SPSS Modeler.

SPSS Modeler 18.2 has RandomForest node. It is function SPSS Modeler can use from Python modeling. SPSS Modeler RandomForest node doesn't use all function of all Python RandomForest function. My customer would like to use all Python RandomForest ...
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Offline context sensitive help stored locally

This feature will be useful for users who work offline or in the environment isolated from the Internet. These users cannot use a context help for Modeler.
over 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Not under consideration

Reading CSV Files with Non-Delimiting Commas

The Var File Source node in Modeler is not able to detect commas within a comma-delimited file that are not delimiters. A comma within a single field would currently cause that field to be read as two fields, and distort all of the data beyond the...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration