SPSS Statistics 22.0 GA Fix List
(URL: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27039327)
Abstract
A comprehensive list of defect corrections for SPSS Statistics 22 GA. Details of the fixes are listed below. If you have questions about a particular defect, please contact Customer Support.
Content
Installation/Licensing
PM73263 INSTALLING CONCURRENT LICENSING TOOLS 9.5 FOR STATISTICS 21.0 FAILS.
PM83075 NECESSARY TROUBLESHOOTING TOOLS ARE NOT PRESENT IN INSTALLATION ON MAC
PM79919 INSTALLATION ON RHEL 6.X FAILS
PM81430 EXISTING WINDOWS REGISTRY KEYS FOR FONTS ARE CHANGED WHEN INSTALLING STATISTICS 21
PM86912 ONLY TWO ARGUMENTS TO
LICENSEACTIVATOR.EXE ARE DOCUMENTED Statistical Analysis
PM79509 CHANGES IN EXAMINE PLOTS IN VERSION 21 COMPARED WITH EARLIER VERSIONS USING THE SAME DATA
PM82555 DISCRIMINANT CRASHES with /HISTORY=NONE and Even numbered levels
PM83285 DISCRIMINANT FAILS TO RUN WITH /HISTORY=NONE AND EVEN-NUMBERED INCLUSION LEVELS
PM53484 MEANS COMMAND TRGGERS ERROR IF VARIABLE NAMED CELLS IN DATA SET
PM90013 SIMULATION BUILDER DOES NOT HONOR
SPECIFICATION OF CORRELATION STRUCTURES
PM85532 ALGORITHMS STATE THAT T STATISTIC DEGREES OF FREEDOM MUST BE INTEGER, BUT THEY CAN BE NON-INTEGER
PM84361 COMPUTED VARIABLE IN N7 FORMAT
INCORRECTLY REPRESENTED WITH DECIMAL VALUES IN FREQUENCIES OUTPUT
PM92611 MEANS PROCEDURE TRUNCATES LONG STRING GROUP NAMES, COMBINING GROUPS IN ANOVA RESULTS
PM94846 IN IBM SPSS STATISTICS 21 AND EARLIER, A SWEPT CORRELATION MATRIX MAY DISPLAY DIFFERENTLY DEPENDING ON THE ENTRY METHOD EMPLOYED
PM91607 PLUM WARNING RE. ZERO-COUNT CELLS UNDERCOUNTS THE ZERO-COUNT CELLS Graphics/Visualization
PM88963 SCATTER PLOT LEGEND WILL REVERT TO
VARIABLE NAMES, RATHER THAN DOUBLE-BYTE VARIABLE LABELS, WHEN EDITING THE PLOT STYLES.
PM90017 NO AXIS LABELS IN OVERLAY SCATTERPLOT (WITH ALL SCALE VARIABLES)
PM87371 UNABLE TO ENTER A REFERENCE LINE TO X-AXIS ON SCATTERPLOTS WHEN X-AXIS VARIABLE HAS ONLY CONSTANT VALUES
PM89645 GRAPHBOARD EDITOR: GETTING 'ARRAY INDEX OUT OF RANGE: 2' WHEN EDITING A
CHOROPLETH OF VALUES WITH DATA LABELS
PM90946 CHLOROPLETH OF MEANS NEVER RENDERS
PM74816 POLYGON OVERLAY MAP IS NOT DISPLAYED ON VIEWER, XML COULD NOT BE PARSED ERROR
PM74791 MOVING THE SLIDERS WITHIN THE GRAPH
EDITOR WINDOW OF A SIMULATION GRAPH WILL COVER PARTS OF THE TITLE
Data Access/ODBC
PM77522 UNABLE TO IMPORT IBM COGNOS 8 DATA INTO IBM SPSS STATISTICS 21, GETTING ERROR: FAILED TO RENDER THE REPORT SPEC
PM88119 OUTPUT EXPORT TO XLSX DOES NOT WORK WITHIN MACRO CALLS WHERE XLS WORK FINE
PM85225 ILLEGAL VARIABLE NAMES FROM EXCEL ARE RENAMED INAPPROPRIATELY (E.G. 'MY VARNAME' BECOMES 'V12')
PM83433 XLSX IMPORT DOES NOT RETAIN VARIABLE NAMES AS VARIABLE LABELS WHEN VARIABLE NAMES CONTAINS INVALID CHARACTERS
PM87350 INCORRECT VARIABLE NAMES ARE IMPORTED FROM AN .XLSX FILE IF SEPARATE WORKSHEET
CONTAINS VARIABLE DEFINITIONS.
PM90797 EXCEL (.XLSX) FILE WILL NOT IMPORT WITH USER-DEFINED DATES
PM82104 EXPORTED NUMERIC VARIABLES ARE DISPLAYED WITH TWO DECIMALS (.00) ON EXPORTED XLSX FILE
PM84367 CONNECTION FAILS IN "FILE -> READ COGNOS DATA" CONNECTION GUI
PM82798 ADD NEW FIELDS TO AN EXISTING TABLE IN A POSTGRESQL DATABASE DOESN'T WORK
PM81924 WHEN RUNNING STATISTICS IN UNICODE MODE, THE ACTUAL OBDC DRIVERS DON'T WORK.
PM80826 EXPORT TO POSTGRESSQL DATABASE WITH IBM SPSS STATISTICS 20 ON LINUX SERVER: STRING VARIABLES ARE CHANGED TO TIMESTAMP TYPE
PM87323 UI PASTING BAD SYNTAX FOR ODBC READ OF POSTGRESQL DATABASE.
PM89145 UNABLE TO OPEN ODBC TABLE IF A BACKSLASH ( \ ) IS PRESENT IN THE SCHEMA NAME.
PM74103 DEFAULT ACCESS DATABASE DRIVER HOLDS ONTO THE FIRST FILE REFERENCE OF THE SESSION
PM74185 OPEN DATABASE WIZARD WILL NOT OPEN ACCESS TABLES WITH SPACES IN THE NAMES.
PM74712 OVERLAPPING TEXT WITH VARIABLE NAMES FROM DATA PREVIEW ON STEP 5 READ TEXT DATA WIZARD
PM77628 READ N PERCENT OF A TEXT FILE DOES ONLY WORK WITH SAMPLE COMMAND INCLUDED but this is not documented
PM78963 TEXT FILE DOES NOT OPEN WHEN FILES OF TYPE SET TO "ALL TYPES"
PM83221 UNTRANSLATED TEXT ON STEP 5 OF READ TEXT DATA WIZARD OF IBM SPSS STATISTICS 21
PM42043 UNABLE TO OPEN DATA IN SHARED FOLDERS ON A DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM DIRECTLY WITH FILE - OPEN - DATA IN IBM SPSS STATISTICS
PM84265 EXCEL IMPORT DATA ERRORS WHERE THE FIELD IS MIXED TYPE
PM85225 ILLEGAL VARIABLE NAMES FROM EXCEL ARE RENAMED INAPPROPRIATELY (E.G. 'MY VARNAME' BECOMES 'V12')
Data Management
PM77129 UNABLE TO TOGGLE BETWEEN 'DISPLAY VARIABLE NAMES/LABELS' WHEN WORKING WITHIN THE NEW CUSTOM ATTRIBUTE DIALOG WINDOW
PM86077 COPY VARIABLE NAMES ON VARIABLE VIEW WITH CTRL-C DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY
PM85344 Using the STAR JOIN may produce incorrect results
PM75635 ERROR MESSAGE WHEN MERGING TWO
PASSWORD PROTECTED FILES AND WHEN ONLY ONE OF THE FILES IS ALREADY OPEN
PM87887 COM AND COMP NO LONGER RECOGNIZED AS ABBREVIATION FOR COMPUTE
PM82164 CTRL+C INCONSISTENTLY EFFECTIVE
PM83239 REPLACE IN DATA VIEW DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY FOR MATCH TO OPTIONS: ENTIRE CELL, BEGINS WITH AND ENDS WITH
PM82097 UNABLE TO USE A STRING VARIABLE IN A CROSS-VARIABLE RULE ON VALIDATE DATA
PM90052 IBM SPSS STATISTICS 21 DATA EDITOR'S
FIND/REPLACE DIALOG DOES NOT RECOGNISE 'MATCH CASE' FUNCTION.
PM85136 THE ACT OF SAVING AN SPSS STATISTICS FILE CAN LOSE VARIABLES FROM A MULTIPLE
RESPONSE SET DEFINITION.
PM92467 UNABLE TO CREATE MULTIPLE RESPONSE SETS WITH DOUBLE-BYTE CHARACTERS IN THE NAME OF SET OR VARIABLES IN SET
PM82861 DATA EDITOR TRANSPOSES THE DECIMAL PORTION OF A TIME11.2 VARIABLE
Tables
PM91372 STATISTICS SHOULD NOT CRASH WHEN WRONG CTABLES SYNTAX IS USED AND THE DATA IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR THE COMMAND
PM83946 FAST TABLES VALUES DON'T MATCH FULL TABLES AND BACK END VALUES
PM75417 CUSTOM CURRENCY FORMAT IS INCORRECT WHEN USING POLISH AND LIGHT/FAST TABLES TO GENERATE THE PIVOT TABLES.
PM86420 GETVALUEAT API DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY FOR FAST TABLES AFTER FIXPACK 1 FOR RELEASE 21 IS INSTALLED
PM86521 CAPTION TEXT IS PRINTED WITH TOO MUCH SPACE BETWEEN THE FAST TABLE BORDER WHEN AN OPTION ON PAGE ATTRIBUTES WAS CHANGED
PM88094 NOT ALL FAST RENDERED CROSSTABS ARE
GENERATED ON JAPANESE OS WHEN IN UNICODE MODE, (PROCESSING..) DISPLAYED
OMS/Output Export
PM74652 OMSLOG DOESN'T RECORD TRANSACTIONS WHEN EXPORTING TO TEXT OR XML FORMATS IN IBM SPSS STATISTICS 21.0
PM91476 MULTIPLE OMS COMMAND WITH DESTINATION FORMAT XLSX - EXPORTING CTABLES - CRASHES STATISTICS 21.0.0.1
PM89849 INCONSISTENT BEHAVIOUR WHEN
PRINTING/EXPORTING PIVOT TABLES. SOME VARIABLE LABELS ARE TRUNCATED WHEN LOCALE IS GREEK
PM89854 EXPORTED PDF PRODUCES EMPTY 'BOX'
CHARACTER WHEN USING TEMPLATE WHICH HAS 'VERDANA' AS THE SELECTED FONT.
PM90596 EXPORTING PIVOT TABLES TO OFFICE FORMAT FAILS TO RETAIN LINES WITHIN THE TABLE IN SPSS STATISTICS 21 FP1.
Programmability/Scripting
PM84646 32-BIT R-ESSENTIALS INSTALLER PLACES FILES IN THE WRONG PATH ON 64-BIT WINDOWS OS
PM86246 PYTHON SCRIPT WHICH CREATES TEXT-BASED OUTPUT CAN DISPLAY TRACEBACK ERRORS IN THE EXPORTED OUTPUT FILE.
Statistics Server
PM81994 STATISTICS SERVER TERMINATES WITH EXIT CODE -3 ON AIX POWER 7
PM90496 STATISTICS SERVER DOES NOT CLEANUP ORPHANED CLIENT PROCESSES
Help/Documentation
PM72930 IBM SPSS STATISTICS 21 CLIENT
DOCUMENTATION FOR GERMAN INCLUDES USER MANUAL IN CHINESE INSTEAD OF GERMAN
LANGUAGE
PM81098 INCONSISTENT DOCUMENTATION OF SUPPORTED MACINTOSH OPERATING SYSTEM 10.6 AND IBM SPSS STATISTICS 21
PM92852 COMMAND SYNTAX AND ALGORITHMS FOR DIRECT MARKETING INSUFFICIENT
PM47813 INCORRECT VARIABLE LABELS USED IN JAPANESE VERSION OF THE CATEGORIES MANUAL.
PM77124 STATISTICS DOCUMENTATION STATES
DISCRIMINANT MODEL CAN BE EXPORTED TO PMML FORMAT, BUT IT EXPORTS TO 'SPSS-ML' FORMAT INSTEAD.
PM83683 INCORRECT MINIMUM RAM REQUIREMENT FOR IBM SPSS STATISTICS SERVER 21 IN OUR
DOCUMENTATION
PM81546 LINEAR MODELS ALGORITHMS DOCUMENTATION CONTAINS INCORRECT FORMULAS FOR
PREDICTOR IMPORTANCE
PM82131 BRIEF GUIDE LAYERED TABLES EXAMPLE FAILS
PM90132 CANNOT PRINT ALL CONTENTS OF "TUTORIAL" AND "CASE STUDIES" BY SELECTING THE PRINT BUTTON IN THE LEFT PANEL
PM94849 THE HELP TOPIC REGARDING THE EXPERT MODELER IN IBM SPSS STATISTICS TIME SERIES ANALYSIS IS MISLEADING
PM94848 IBM SPSS STATISTICS 21 CONTAINS AN ERROR IN THE HELP SECTION "SIGNIFICANCE RESULTS IN APA-STYLE NOTATION"
Localization
PM89221 SIMULATION FAILS TO RETURN EQUATIONS (FROM .SPLAN FILE) USED WHEN OS AND DATA (VARIABLE NAMES) IS SET TO JAPANESE.
PM73500 MISSING TRANSLATIONS FOR STATISTICAL TERMS ON NEW SIMULATION OUTPUT
PM75643 INCORRECT POLISH TRANSLATIONS FOR NEW SIMULATION DIALOGS
PM71077 KOREAN TRANSLATION OF "SIGNIFICANCE" IS INCORRECT WITHIN THE PARTIAL CORRELATIONS TABLE
PM73810 INCORRECT TRANSLATIONS FOR POLISH
LANGUAGE ON OUTPUT FOR NEW SIMULATION PROCEDURE
PM74131 CZECH CHARACTERS OF VARIABLE LABELS NOT DISPLAYED CORRECTLY ON SIMULATION OUTPUT TABLES AND CHARTS WITH UNICODE OFF
PM38895 PROBLEMS TO WORK WITH HEBREW LANGUAGE CHARACTERS IN A SYNTAX EDITOR WINDOW Password
Protection/Encryption
PM89387 UNEXPECTED BEHAVIOUR WHEN LARGE
DATASET IS PASSWORD PROTECTED BY SPSS STATISTICS 21FP1.
PM75230 CANNOT USE PASSWORD PROTECTED DATA FILES AS EXTERNAL FILES. CONFUSING ERROR MESSAGES.
C&DS Adapters/Statistics Portal
PM73897 NULLPOINTEREXCEPTION ERRORS WHEN
PIVOTING LAYERS TO ROWS IN PUBLISHED OLAP CUBE (C&DS 5.0)
PM78167 CAN'T OPEN SPW FILE WITH FAST TABLE ON C&DS 4.2 OR C&DS 5 WITH ADAPTER FOR 20 FP2 ON WINDOWS 64 BIT
PM73901 ALTERNATE COLORS OF TABLE LOOK NOT KEPT AFTER PUBLISH TO THE WEB OF A SPV FILE.
PM75433 PUBLISHED OLAP CUBE: PRODUCED RTF EMPTY AND PDF CAN'T BE OPENED
PM88533 FAST RENDERED OLAP CUBES PUBLISHED TO WEB: PIVOTING OF STATISTICS CATEGORIES NOT WORKING CORRECTLY FOR LAYER DIMENSION Miscellaneous
PM75552 UNABLE TO USE SYSFILE INFO COMMAND FOR PASSWORD PROTECTED SAV FILES
PM81387 EDIT -> OPTIONS: DISPLAY STICKS AT DEFAULT DISPLAY EVEN AFTER CHANGING
PM82517 FREQUENT RESIZING DIALOG POSITIONS AND SIZES CAUSE STATISTICS 21 TO BECOME UNRESPONSIVE ON DIALOGS SOME DAY
PM68568 GRACE PERIOD DIALOG AND WELCOME DIALOG CAN COMBINE TO MAKE ALL STATISTICS MENUS GRAYED OUT
SPSS STATISTICS 21 FP1 PRODUCT WILL RESET PREVIOUSLY SELECTED SETTINGS.
PM83708 SOME CHARTS ARE NOT PRINTED ON PDF WHEN USING ADOBE XI PRINTER ON FILE - PRINT
PM85087 PAGE ATTRIBUTES: HITTING THE SPACE KEY ON HEADER AND FOOTER ADD TWO SPACES
INSTEAD OF ONE
PM87455 RIGHT-CLICKING ON LEFT-HAND SIDE OF OUTPUT VIEWER WINDOW WILL DESELECT ALL ITEMS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY SELECTED.
PM83456 SYNTAX SPANS DO NOT LINE UP WITH THE COMMANDS WHEN VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL SCROLL BARS PRESENT
PM94850 MENU ITEMS SOMETIMES OVERLAP WITH THEIR CORRESPONDING ARROWS WHEN STANDARD LOOK AND FEEL IS USED AT HIGH DISPLAY RESOLUTIONS
