IBM SPSS Statistics Helper Applications

If a compatible version of IBM® SPSS® Statistics is installed and licensed on your computer, you can configure IBM SPSS Modeler to process data with IBM SPSS Statistics functionality using the Statistics Transform, Statistics Model, Statistics Output, or Statistics Export nodes.

For information on product compatibility with the current version of IBM SPSS Modeler, see the corporate Support site at http://www.ibm.com/support.

To configure IBM SPSS Modeler to work with IBM SPSS Statistics and other applications, choose:

Tools > Options > Helper Applications

IBM SPSS Statistics Interactive. Enter the full path and name of the command (for example, C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Statistics\<nn>\stats.exe) to be used when launching IBM SPSS Statistics directly on a data file produced by the Statistics Export node. See Statistics Export Node for more information.

Connection. If IBM SPSS Statistics Server is located on the same host as IBM SPSS Modeler Server, you can enable a connection between the two applications, which increases efficiency by leaving data on the server during analysis. Select Server to enable the Port option below. The default setting is Local.

Port. Specify the server port for IBM SPSS Statistics Server.

IBM SPSS Statistics Location Utility. To enable IBM SPSS Modeler to use the Statistics Transform, Statistics Model, and Statistics Output nodes, you must have a copy of IBM SPSS Statistics installed and licensed on the computer where the stream is run.

  • If running IBM SPSS Modeler in local (stand-alone) mode, the licensed copy of IBM SPSS Statistics must be on the local computer. Click this button to specify the location of the local IBM SPSS Statistics installation you want to use for the licensing.
  • In addition, if running in distributed mode against a remote IBM SPSS Modeler Server, you also need to run a utility at the IBM SPSS Modeler Server host to create the statistics.ini file, which indicates to IBM SPSS Statistics the installation path for IBM SPSS Modeler Server. To do this, from the command prompt, change to the IBM SPSS Modeler Server bin directory and, for Windows, run:
    statisticsutility -location=<IBM SPSS Statistics_installation_path>/

    Alternatively, for UNIX, run:

    ./statisticsutility -location=<IBM SPSS Statistics_installation_path>/bin

If you do not have a licensed copy of IBM SPSS Statistics on your local machine, you can still run the Statistics File node against a IBM SPSS Statistics server, but attempts to run other IBM SPSS Statistics nodes will display an error message.

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If you have trouble running the IBM SPSS Statistics procedure nodes, consider the following tips:

  • If field names used in IBM SPSS Modeler are longer than eight characters (for versions prior to IBM SPSS Statistics 12.0), longer than 64 characters (for IBM SPSS Statistics 12.0 and subsequent versions), or contain invalid characters, it is necessary to rename or truncate them before reading them into IBM SPSS Statistics. See Renaming or Filtering Fields for IBM SPSS Statistics for more information.
  • If IBM SPSS Statistics was installed after IBM SPSS Modeler, you may need to specify the IBM SPSS Statistics location, as explained previously.