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Search results: SPSS Modeler

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Modeler Flow on DSX Local should support TXT file as local dataset

Currently Modeler Flow on DSX Local support only CSV file as local dataset. We are requesting an enhancement to allow Modeler Flow on DSX Local to also support TXT file as local dataset.
about 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Delivered

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...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Specify how many records to parse to determine storage type with an Excel file

Currently, Modeler reads the first 50 rows of an Excel file to determine storage. I have seen many customers wish that they could determine the amount of rows to read in - as sometimes they have missing values for the first 100 records, and the st...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0

"Store" instead of "Save" when Working with Streams from a C&DS Repository

Currently when a user retrieves an IBM SPSS Modeler Stream from an IBM SPSS C&DS Repository, the default behavior of the user is to save the file on the local disk while working on the file. This is due to default behavior of the Modeler clien...
almost 11 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Specific Encoding options on the list of Encoding Setting on Stream Properties and Var.File properties

Currently on the var.file properties there is setting for "Encoding" which allow user select following options:- Stream default- System default- UTF-8And on the stream properties, there is "Encoding" setting with option of "System default" and "UT...
about 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

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 o...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Enable admin group access Admin Console

When group configure enabled in options.cfg, it should be able to set 'administrator, "Group"' that adding/removing members from the Group instead of changing options.cfg file.
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Modeler should not cast operands of multiplication to DOUBLE explicitly.

Modeler should not cast operands of multiplication to DOUBLE explicitly when the type of one operand is FLOAT/DOUBLE but the type of the other operand is integer. Users should be able to prevent this behavior with a new parameter in the Modeler Se...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Modeler code conversion

It seems that Modeler converts characters as explained in the attached file. Therefore, Japanese has a problem with the Unicode converter. Some Japanese characters are garbled when converting from Shift-JIS to Unicode and when converting from Unic...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Functionality already exists

Changing the location of executable binaries generated by View Data functionality from AppData to Program Files

IBM Support Case : TS003015642 When the user selects View Data in SPSS Modeler 18.2.1 is selected : A Java library jxbrowser-win64-6.2.1.jar (present in the SPSS installation directory) is accessed. It extracts a 7zr.exe file which is then execu...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Delivered