PM52286: DENDOGRAM AXIS LABELS ARE DISPLAYED AS SCIENTIFIC NOTIFICATION INSTEAD OF ACTUAL STRING VARIABLE CONTENT

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• You work with IBM SPSS Statistics 20 and create a hierarchical
  cluster analysis with Dendogram plot. However, sometimes when
  you have certain case numbers (e.g. 49 cases in the file) you
  see that the values for the dendogram axis for the string
  variable which you used as label variable for the plot are
  displayed in scientific notification instead of the actual
  string value content.
  This does not happen for all files and case numbers. In most
  cases the axis label display on the dendogram is correct.
  
  This was reported to IBM SPSS Development. If you encounter the
  issue there is a workaround:
  
  Double click on the dendrogram in the viewer to open it in chart
  editor.  Select the Y-Axis (either by clicking on it or
  selecting the "Y" button), and open the properties window if it
  is not open (edit->properties).  Select the Scale tab.  On the
  lower-left corner of the Scale tab is a text box to hold the
  "Lower margin (%)".  Change that value to "0", and click Apply.
  The axis labels will be displayed properly then.
  
  Other workarounds are:
  
  1)  Set the upper and lower margins to 1% rather than 2%
  2)  Set the Y-axis tick marks to have scientific notation: Never
  (instead of default of when needed)
  3)  Added a relabel for 0 and #of cases + 1 to relabel to empty
  string
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * Users creating a dendogram with hierarchical cluster         *
  * analysis                                                     *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * You work with IBM SPSS Statistics 20 and create a            *
  * hierarchical                                                 *
  * cluster analysis with Dendogram plot. However, sometimes     *
  * when                                                         *
  * you have certain case numbers (e.g. 49 cases in the file)    *
  * you                                                          *
  * see that the values for the dendogram axis for the string    *
  * variable which you used as label variable for the plot are   *
  * displayed in scientific notification instead of the actual   *
  * string value content.                                        *
  * This does not happen for all files and case numbers. In most *
  * cases the axis label display on the dendogram is correct.    *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  * Install IBM SPSS Statistics 20 FixPack 1 (20.0.0.1)          *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• Install IBM SPSS Statistics 20 FixPack 1 (20.0.0.1)
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  SPSS STATISTICS

• Fixed component ID

  5725A54ST

Applicable component levels

• RK00 PSN

     UP

• RK00 PSY

     UP