Distribution Channels

Each user can specify how they receive notification messages. For example, if your company uses IBM® SPSS® Collaboration and Deployment Services RSS feeds, you may choose to disable email notifications and only enable RSS feeds so you can view all notifications in a feed reader.

Syndication feeds provide a format for delivering regularly changing content. IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services syndicates its notifications as RSS feeds or Atom feeds. An RSS aggregator (feed reader) that supports authenticated feeds is required for viewing notification feeds. For example, RSSBandit and Microsoft® Outlook® 2007 are common desktop-based feed readers, and Google Reader™ and Yahoo® Reader are common Web-based feed readers.

Administrators can override your settings by disabling feeds for all users via the browser-based IBM SPSS Deployment Manager. Administrators also define the output format used for all syndication feeds (RSS or Atom), limit the total number of syndication feed entries served to the RSS/Atom subscribers, control which users can access feeds, etc.

See the topic RSS notification feeds for more information.

1. Click Preferences on the Home screen, and click Distribution Channels to set distribution channel preferences.

Note that the RSS/ATOM Syndication option is only available to users who are granted the Access Syndicated Feeds action by an administrator.