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SPSS Statistics 21.0 Fix Pack 2 Fix List

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Abstract

A comprehensive list of defect corrections for the SPSS Statistics 21.0 Fix Pack 2. Details of the fixes are listed below under the tab for the respective Fix Pack. If you have questions about a particular defect, please contact Customer Support.

Note: each successive Fix Pack is comprehensive and contains the material from the earlier Fix Packs for that Release, as well as all Interim Fixes made available since the previous Fix Pack or full Release. In other words, when multiple Fix Packs are available, you would not need to apply Fix Pack 1 before applying Fix Pack 2.

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SPSS Statistics 21.0 FP2 Downloads

SPSS Statistics 21.0 FP2

                                                                                                                                                                                     
Issues corrected since SPSS Statistics 21.0 Fix Pack 1
Number Description
Installation/Licensing
PM85377INSTALL OF STATS 21 FP1 PRODUCES INCORRECT LOG FILENAME > CREATES 20001PATCHLOG.TXT INSTEAD OF 21001PATCHLOG.TXT
PM96097PATCH INSTALL LOG IS MISNAMED
Statistical Analysis
PM83285DISCRIMINANT FAILS TO RUN WITH /HISTORY=NONE AND EVEN-NUMBERED INCLUSION LEVELS
PM85961XML MODEL FILE GENERATED BY DIRECT MARKETING IS NOT RECOGNIZED BY SCORING WIZARD
PM86833MVA PROCEDURE ISSUES INSUFFICIENT MEMORY ERROR WITH SMALL ANALYSIS WHEN LONG STRING VARIABLES ARE PRESENT IN FILE
PM89221SIMULATION FAILS TO RETURN EQUATIONS (FROM .SPLAN FILE) USED WHEN OS AND DATA (VARIABLE NAMES) IS SET TO JAPANESE
PM90013SIMULATION BUILDER DOES NOT HONOR SPECIFICATION OF CORRELATION STRUCTURES
PM91607PLUM WARNING RE. ZERO-COUNT CELLS UNDERCOUNTS THE ZERO-COUNT CELLS
PM92611MEANS PROCEDURE TRUNCATES LONG STRING GROUP NAMES, COMBINING GROUPS IN ANOVA RESULTS
PM93290STRING VARIABLES NOT DISPLAYED ON SECTION CATEGORICAL COVARIATES OF DIALOG: COX REGRESSION: DEFINE CATEGORICAL COVARIATES
PM94048RUNNING GENLINMIXED ALTERS RESULTS OF MIXED
PM94807UNABLE TO DEFINE VALUE GREATER THAN 6 DIGITS IN LOG REG > SELECTION VARIABLE DIALOG WINDOW. WORKS OK IN SYNTAX.
PM96408GENLINMIXED ISSUES WARNING ABOUT NO VALID RECORDS FOR THE IDENTITY LINK FUNCTION FOR CERTAIN REPEATED COVARIANCE STRUCTURES
PM96635GENLINMIXED PRODUCES WARNINGS ABOUT PARSING FAILURES IN VIZML2.0, FAILS TO PRODUCE SOME GRAPHS WITH ODISPLAY=TABLES
PM99063RUNNING GLMM ON A DATASET WILL CRASH IBM SPSS STATISTICS 21 WITH FIXPACK 1 INSTALLED
PM98912GENLIN WITH /MODELDISTRIBUTION=NEGBIN(MLE) CAUSES UNEXPECTED INTERNAL ERROR
Graphics/Visualization
PM88963SCATTER PLOT LEGEND WILL REVERT TO VARIABLE NAMES, RATHER THAN DOUBLE-BYTE VARIABLE LABELS, WHEN EDITING THE PLOT STYLES.
PM89645GRAPHBOARD EDITOR: GETTING 'ARRAY INDEX OUT OF RANGE: 2' WHEN EDITING A CHOROPLETH OF VALUES WITH DATA LABELS
PM90017NO AXIS LABELS IN OVERLAY SCATTERPLOT (WITH ALL SCALE VARIABLES)
PM90946CHLOROPLETH OF MEANS NEVER RENDERS
PM96271MAP CHART CREATED WITHIN RELEASE 21 AND 22 DISPLAYS WRONG LEGEND FOR CHOROPLETH OF SUMS COMPARED WITH RELEASE 20
PM98145GRAPH TEMPLATES FROM STATISTICS 17.0.3; TEMPLATE FAILS TO CORRECTLY LABELS GRAPHS IN 21.0 FP1 AND 22.0
PM99282GPL SORT.VALUES() FUNCTION NOT BEING RESPECTED
Data Access/ODBC
PM86793EXPORT TO ORACLE FAILED FOR DATETIME AND TIME DATA TYPE. ERROR "DATETIME FIELD OVERFLOW" IS RETURNED.
PM83433XLSX IMPORT DOES NOT RETAIN VARIABLE NAMES AS VARIABLE LABELS WHEN VARIABLE NAMES CONTAINS INVALID CHARACTERS
PM84265EXCEL IMPORT DATA ERRORS WHERE THE FIELD IS MIXED TYPE
PM88790CADS ENTERPRISE ENTERPRISE VIEW DRIVER DOES NOT WORK WITH STATISTICS 21 AND DB2 DATABASE
PM85225ILLEGAL VARIABLE NAMES FROM EXCEL ARE RENAMED INAPPROPRIATELY (E.G. 'MY VARNAME' BECOMES 'V12')
PM87350INCORRECT VARIABLE NAMES ARE IMPORTED FROM AN .XLSX FILE IF SEPARATE WORKSHEET CONTAINS VARIABLE DEFINITIONS.
PM87323UI PASTING BAD SYNTAX FOR ODBC READ OF POSTGRESQL DATABASE.
PM89145UNABLE TO OPEN ODBC TABLE IF A BACKSLASH ( \ ) IS PRESENT IN THE SCHEMA NAME.
PM90797EXCEL (.XLSX) FILE WILL NOT IMPORT WITH USER-DEFINED DATES
PM85225ILLEGAL VARIABLE NAMES FROM EXCEL ARE RENAMED INAPPROPRIATELY (E.G. 'MY VARNAME' BECOMES 'V12')
PM94571READ TEXT WIZARD MANGLES NON-ENGLISH TEXT REGARDLESS OF /ENCODING SETTING.
PM96002STATISTICS READS EXCEL FILE AND MANGLES IT ACROSS MULTIPLE RECORDS -- ON MS WINDOWS
PM96438WRONG SQL SYNTAX PASTED FOR LIMIT RETRIEVED CASES DIALOG AND AN INNER JOIN FROM AN ORACLE DATABASE
PM96667EXPORTING TO XLSX FORMAT WILL GARBLE SHEET NAMES CONTAINING DOUBLE BYTE JP CHARACTERS
PM97069STATISTICS FAILS TO COMPLETELY IMPORT WHEN EXCEL XLSX DATA USES REFERENCES TO OBTAIN VALUES FROM A SEPARATE WORKSHEET
PM97747ODBC: SAVED QUERY CANNOT BE RUN OR EDITED
Data Management
PM87887COM AND COMP NO LONGER RECOGNIZED AS ABBREVIATION FOR COMPUTE
PM82164CTRL+C INCONSISTENTLY EFFECTIVE
PM82861DATA EDITOR TRANSPOSES THE DECIMAL PORTION OF A TIME11.2 VARIABLE
PM83143RUNNING "CREATE" ON 40,000 SEPARATE SPLIT RECORDS RUNS FINE IN STATISTICS 18.0.3 BUT RUNS FOREVER AND/OR CRASHES IN VERSIONS THEREAFTER
PM83239REPLACE IN DATA VIEW DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY FOR MATCH TO OPTIONS: ENTIRE CELL, BEGINS WITH AND ENDS WITH
PM85136THE ACT OF SAVING AN SPSS STATISTICS FILE CAN LOSE VARIABLES FROM A MULTIPLE RESPONSE SET DEFINITION.
PM85344USING STAR JOIN MAY PRODUCE INCORRECT RESULTS
PM90052IBM SPSS STATISTICS 21 DATA EDITOR'S FIND/REPLACE DIALOG DOES NOT RECOGNISE 'MATCH CASE' FUNCTION.
PM92467UNABLE TO CREATE MULTIPLE RESPONSE SETS WITH DOUBLE-BYTE CHARACTERS IN THE NAME OF SET OR VARIABLES IN SET
PM98478STAR JOIN WITH TWO KEY VARIABLES MERGE INCORRECTLY WHILE MATCH FILES WORK FINE
PM98655STAR JOIN: STATISTICS 22 CRASHES WITH AN UNKNOWN ERROR HAS TERMINATED COMMUNICATION WITH THE PROCESSOR, BUT MATCH FILES WORK
PM89387UNEXPECTED BEHAVIOUR WHEN LARGE DATASET IS PASSWORD PROTECTED BY SPSS STATISTICS 21 FP1.
Tables
PM88094NOT ALL FAST RENDERED CROSSTABS ARE GENERATED ON JAPANESE OS WHEN IN UNICODE MODE, (PROCESSING..) DISPLAYED
PM91372STATISTICS SHOULD NOT CRASH WHEN WRONG CTABLES SYNTAX IS USED AND THE DATA IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR THE COMMAND
OMS/Output Export
PM84272ADDING HEBREW TEXT TO OUTPUT AND EDITING OR EXPORTING IT WILL RENDER IT UNREADABLE
PM84280EXPORT CHART TO .JPG AT 200% SIZE CREATES ZERO BYTE FILE.
PM88119OUTPUT EXPORT TO XLSX DOES NOT WORK WITHIN MACRO CALLS WHERE XLS WORK FINE
PM89849INCONSISTENT BEHAVIOUR WHEN PRINTING/EXPORTING PIVOT TABLES. SOME VARIABLE LABELS ARE TRUNCATED WHEN LOCALE IS GREEK
PM89854EXPORTED PDF PRODUCES EMPTY 'BOX' CHARACTER WHEN USING TEMPLATE WHICH HAS 'VERDANA' AS THE SELECTED FONT.
PM90596EXPORTING PIVOT TABLES TO OFFICE FORMAT FAILS TO RETAIN LINES WITHIN THE TABLE IN SPSS STATISTICS 21 FP1.
PM91476MULTIPLE OMS COMMAND WITH DESTINATION FORMAT XLSX - EXPORTING CTABLES - CRASHES STATISTICS 21.0.0.1
PM94795OUTPUT EXPORT CREATES ADDITIONAL .XLSX FILES (TEMP FILES?) AND THEN DOESN'T CLEAN THEM UP.
PM95636EXPORT OUTPUT TO EXCEL XLS FILE VIA MACRO CALL DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY IN 21.0.0.1 AND WORKS FINE WITH 21.0.0.0
PM88533FAST RENDERED OLAP CUBES PUBLISHED TO WEB: PIVOTING OF STATISTICS CATEGORIES NOT WORKING CORRECTLY FOR LAYER DIMENSION
Programmability/Scripting
PM83444LONGER RUN TIMES WHEN SENDING JOB THROUGH .NET
PM94948THE JAVA API USED IN IBM SPSS STATISTICS 21.0 DOESN'T CREATE TIME FORMAT VARIABLES PROPERLY
PM8464632-BIT R-ESSENTIALS INSTALLER PLACES FILES IN THE WRONG PATH ON 64-BIT WINDOWS OS
PM86420GETVALUEAT API DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY FOR FAST TABLES AFTER FIXPACK 1 FOR RELEASE 21 IS INSTALLED
PM89346STATISTICS IS TRUNCATING VERY LONG COMMAND LINES
PM94748THE JAVA DEMO EXTENSION HANGS ON MAC OS X
PM93917EXPORT TO EXCEL WITH PYTHON SCRIPT DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY FOR EXCEL 2013, FORMATTING IS LOST
PM98836ARRAYINDEXOUTOFBOUNDS EXCEPTION USING JAVA PLUGIN IN IBM SPSS STATISTICS 21.0
PM96360ERROR 6983 WHEN PYTHON IS CALLED FROM A MACRO THAT INCLUDES AN IF/THEN STATEMENT AND USE A MACRO TOKEN
PM99225AFTER STATISTICS 22 INSTALLATION *.WWD SCRIPTS NO LONGER RUN IN STATISTICS 21 FP1 INSTALLED ON THE SAME COMPUTER
Statistics Server
PM96347SSO IN 1-WAY TRUST MUTIPLE DOMAIN ENVIRONMENT IS NOT WORKING FOR STATS 21 CLIENT WITH FP1 INSTALLED
PM96568PRODUCTION FACILITY JOB WITH SAVE TRANSLATE TO MS SQL SERVER 2008 'HANGS' ON WINDOWS 2012 SERVER
Miscellaneous
PM86521CAPTION TEXT IS PRINTED WITH TOO MUCH SPACE BETWEEN THE FAST TABLE BORDER WHEN AN OPTION ON PAGE ATTRIBUTES WAS CHANGED
PM87694DOUBLE CLICK ON SYNTAX FILE DOES NOT LAUNCH STATISTICS 21 IN DISTRIBUTED MODE ALTHOUGH DEFINED
PM90266REPEATED SHUTDOWN AND START UP OF THE SPSS STATISTICS 21 FP1 PRODUCT WILL RESET PREVIOUSLY SELECTED SETTINGS.
PM90740ON ITALIAN WINDOWS 7 OS THE VIEWER TAB ON EDIT - OPTIONS DIALOG IS EMPTY
PM92522ADDING HEBREW TEXT TO OUTPUT AND DRAGGING/DROPPING TEXT WILL RENDER IT UNREADABLE
PM95487AVAILABLE MEMORY WAS EXHAUSTED WHILE COMPILING OUTPUT. ALL THE OUTPUT FOR THIS COMMAND HAS BEEN DELETED

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Modified date:
17 June 2018

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swg27040324