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Search results: SPSS Statistics

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Request for improving performance when uploading shp file to Statistics

cannot complete uploading shp file (81016 KB) to Statistics with Win 7 4G RAM Customer wants to improve this performance. Due to Sahra's request this is written in Japanese 空間モデリングで分析をおこなう際にMAPのUploadをおこã...
over 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

muti language encoding

We have a survey conducted in Dimensions Data Collections that produces a DDF Data file. In this survey we have an open end (text) variable that contains answers from the users on different exotic languages. The survey is conducted on Burmese and ...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 2 Future consideration

Reinstate fixed width font functionality in SPSS syntax files

SPSS v25 does not allow you to change the font that syntax is displayed in to a fixed width font such as Courier. This makes it extremely different to edit syntax files because it's hard to see the difference between "' and '". We use single and d...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 9 Delivered

Allow for at least 3500 locations in spatio-temporal modeler

Many analyst look at county-level data of the whole nation when performing research (i.e. ~3200 counties). Analyzing parts of the country within themselves (if we were to break up the counties into regions) is not telling very much. Others look at...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Programmability errors should propagate as SPSS errors, by default

Currently Python, R and Java errors are not propagated as SPSS errors. Also, these errors do not end up in the .jnl file. Running the following oneliner will propagate a Python error as an SPSS error import sys, spss; sys.excepthook = lambda type_...
over 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Statistics R Essentials doesn't recognize R failure

When SPSS Statistics server execute R script within Statistics Syntax file(.sps), the execution result will always show successful execution regardless if the R script is returning error. While in the job execution log, the log will show the R err...
almost 11 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

cloud storage capability

SPSS does not have the functionality to retrieve and/or save data and output to the cloud. This seems way out of date and should be easily correctable. The measurable benefits would be less complicated logistics in loading and saving files and tim...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 3 Not under consideration

SPSS License Manager's log file should log both "Client PC IP address" and "Client PC Host name".

SPSS License Manager's log file log only "Client PC Host name", and doesn't log "Client PC IP address". If Client PC has Host name, the log file logged only Client PC Host name. It is difficult to know the PC's IP address. My customer would like t...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Settings in crosstables when weighting is on

When weighting is on and you do the same frequency crosstable with both the crosstabs command and the custom tables command, the 2 tables don't always show the same Counts because of different settings. Crosstabs round the Counts Before, and that ...
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Provide more font size options on page attributes on SPSS Output viewer page attributes

Enhancement Request logged on behalf of a customer. Steps to replicate:Create any output table with SPSs Statistics 25.Click file - Page attributesEnter any text for header or footer and click on font icon to alter the font sizeIn current release...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Delivered