Setting options for the Data View node

Use the options on the Data tab of the Data View node dialog box to specify the data settings for an analytic data view selected from the IBM® SPSS® Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository.

Analytic data view

Click the ellipsis button (...) to select an analytic data view. If you are not currently connected to a repository server, specify the URL for the server in the Repository: Server dialog box. Click OK and specify your connection credentials in the Repository: Credentials dialog box. For more information on logging in to the repository and retrieving objects, see the IBM SPSS Modeler User's Guide.

Table name

Select a table from the data model in the analytic data view. Each table in the data model represents a concept or entity that is involved in the predictive analytic process. Fields for the tables correspond to attributes of the entities represented by the tables. For example, if you are analyzing customer orders, your data model could include a table for customers and a table for orders. The customers table might have attributes for customer identifier, age, gender, marital status, and country of residence. The orders table might have attributes for the order identifier, number of items in the order, total cost, and the identifier for the customer who placed the

Data access plan

Select a data access plan from the analytic data view. A data access plan associates the data model tables in an analytic data view with physical data sources. An analytic data view typically contains multiple data access plans. When you change the data access plan in use, you change the data that is used by your stream. For example, if the analytic data view contains a data access plan for training a model and a data access plan for testing a model, you can switch from training data to testing data by changing the data access plan in use.

Optional Attribute

If a particular attribute is not required by the application using the analytic data view, you can mark the attribute as optional. Unlike required attributes, optional attributes can include null values. You may need to adjust your application to include null value handling for optional attributes. For example, when invoking a business rule created in IBM Operational Decision Manager, IBM Analytical Decision Management queries the rules service to determine which inputs are required. If the record to be scored contains a null value for any of the rule service's required fields, the rule is not invoked and the output fields of the rule are populated with default values. If an optional field contains a null value, the rule is invoked. The rule can check for null values to control processing.

To specify attributes as optional, click Optional Attributes and select the attributes that are optional.

Include XML data in field

Select this option to create a field containing the executable object model XML data for each row of data. This information is required if the data will be used with IBM Operational Decision Manager. Specify the name for this new field.