SPSS Statistics 20.0 GA Fix List. Release notes. Abstract

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1 SPSS Statistics 20.0 GA Fix List Release notes Abstract A comprehensive list of defect corrections for SPSS Statistics 20 GA. Details of the fixes are listed below. If you have questions about a particular defect, please contact Customer Support. Content Note: This list contains both APARS and internal defect numbers. This was necessitated to provide a complete list of corrected defects as we continue to transition our internal defects to APARs. Future Fix Lists will contain only APAR references. SPSS Statistics 20.0 GA PM38288 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM PM37492 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM Requests for chi-square statistics in Crosstabs for a table larger than 2x2 now gives correct Exact significance on all platforms. On Mac OS, applying a template from Chart Builder or to Legacy graphics could cause the application to close suddenly. That has been On Mac OS, redundant Network License Managers could fail after a few minutes. That has been Requests for a Non-Parametric > Related Samples test using the McNemar's test now produces the correct frequency counts in the Model Viewer. When Collaboration and Deployment Services connected to some Statistics Servers, the connection sometimes could not be made. That has been A pushed installation on Windows sometimes failed to launch. That has been When the data being analyzed contain no system missing values, Codebook now does not report counts for system missing values. When used in non-english locales, the Scoring Wizard could produce incorrect predicted values for Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network models. That has been When scoring a TwoStep Cluster XML file the cluster assignments for some cases did not match the cluster assignments from the procedure. That has been A specific CROSSTABS command could cause the application to close suddenly. That has been Opening a Microsoft Access database repeatedly could cause the application to close suddenly. This problem can be corrected by installing a recent version of the Microsoft Access database driver, for example Incorrect handling of comma vs. dot decimal separators could cause Excel import to import incorrect values. That has been SAVE TRANSLATE subcommand /TEXTOPTIONS DECIMAL DOT and COMMA now work as they did in earlier releases. NPTESTS could fail on a Turkish locale when variables contain certain Turkish characters. That has been With some data, the GLMM procedure could cause the application to close suddenly. That has been

2 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM PM37868 PM38758 PM36208 PM41610 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM CROSSTABS would not produce the Mantel-Haenszel statistics for certain string variables. That has been With some data, the MIXED procedure would not produce EMMEANS when they should have been calculated. That has been A CROSSTABS request that contained some string variables could cause the application to close suddenly. That has been Repeated Output Management System (OMS) requests could cause the application to close suddenly. That has been Complex CTABLES requests with post-computes could cause the application to close suddenly. That has been A CTABLES request with MISSING=EXCLUDE could cause a post-computed category to be dropped when it should not be. That has been CTABLES requests with combinations of empty cells could cause postcomputed categories to be incorrect. That has been Replace All in the Data Editor could sometimes fail to replace certain string values. That has been With "Display Value Labels" on in the Data Editor, typing a data value could sometimes cause the value to be entered twice into the cell. That has been Copy and Paste in the Data Editor is now as fast as it was in previous releases. Sorting cells in the Data Editor and then switching from Data to Variable view could cause the wrong values to be displayed. That has been When creating a new dataset and changing a field from Numeric to String with a user-defined missing value, Statistics would not save the dataset. That has been On Mac OS, double-clicking a data file now opens the file only once. Opening SAS files could result in an error message and truncation of characters. That has been Opening Data Collection files now opens the variables creation order. When using the Spanish User Interface Language, Date and Time variables are now created correctly. When using the Japanese User Interface Language, Generalized Linear Models and the Generalized Estimating Equations user interfaces now include all supported Link functions. When connected to a Statistics Server, Save As now correctly adds an extension to the user-provided filename. Problems with the Define Multiple Response Sets user interface and variables with identical value labels have been corrected. With Standard SPSS Look-and-feel and Windows Desktop fonts are set to Extra Large, the buttons on the Compute user interface now display correctly. ECM Using SAVE TRANSLATE to save Excel data on Windows 7 with /MISSING = RECODE specified could cause the application to close suddenly. That has been PM37587 PM40237 The Select Cases user interface for "Select based on time or case range" now reads date-based user entries correctly. A user-created custom menu item that should save data from the Data Editor directly into Microsoft Excel failed with an error message. That has been

3 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM PM39780 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM PM36756 ECM PM36359 With long string variables that have value labels, charts created from Chart Builder could have extra data points. That has been GGRAPH syntax to create a Polar chart that includes "close()" did not handle missing values correctly. That has been The "Go to case" menu in the Chart Editor for Boxplots did not work correctly. That has been Using a DEFINE command to specify a macro that opens a dataset containing double-byte characters as variable names can cause the application to close suddenly. That has been A Network license problem was resolved so that now Commuter licenses correctly enable all purchased modules. A Network license problem was resolved so that now Missing Values Analysis licenses are only used for procedures that support Missing Values Analysis. The Network License Manager allocated 100% of the available licenses to Commuter licenses. That has been The Database Wizard sometimes prompted for login credentials when it should have presented a File Browse user interface. That has been On locales that use commas instead of dots as a decimal separator, Automatic Linear Modeling Model Viewer output could contain dots when it should have contained commas. That has been When requesting Nonparametric Tests (NPTESTS) with SPLIT FILE, the Model Viewer output was missing some split groups. That has been Statistics Server running on ZLinux could import DB2 integer fields incorrectly. That has been When Exporting Data to an Informix database using the Database Wizard, "Replace values in existing fields" and "Add new fields to an existing table" did not work correctly. That has been When opening a Microsoft Access database with the Database Wizard and using "Prompt for values", some strings were not quoted correctly. That has been When exporting to an Excel file using the Database Wizard some data could be truncated. This has been Using SAVE TRANSLATE to save Stata data sometimes failed to produce the file. That has been Saving SAS files to locations that contain Japanese characters now works. Making Output Page Attributes the default now works as expected. Incorrect handling of comma vs. dot decimal separators when pasting values from Pivot Tables to a new data file was Exporting an Output file to PowerPoint now exports all output including the Pivot Tables. Accented characters in Output files now print correctly. Output with long tables now display completely on all pages when printed and when exported to PDF. Output with wide pivot tables now fits on one page when exported to PDF. Copy Special for Pivot Tables now makes all appropriate Paste formats available, and the default persists. Copying a Graph to EMF format could cause the application to close suddenly. That has been

4 PM42210 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM PM40168 PM39180 ECM ECM When exporting Pivot Tables with percentage values to Excel or Word, the percentages could be converted into decimals. That has been Custom dialog packages (.SPD) deployed to Collaboration and Deployment Services could fail to run. That has been An error in the installation instructions for the Statistics Adapters for Collaboration and Deployment Services was corrected. Problems with empty rows and columns in Pivot Tables have been A problem with Exact Tests significance results from Crosstabs running on 64-bit Windows has been corrected. A problem with Python Scripting and DataCellArrays for two tables at the same time was The Rake Weight Programmability Extension available from IBM developerworks failed with certain data. That has been Statistics Server running on ZLinux could fail to end client processes when it should. That has been A pushed installation of "SPSS Statistics - Integration Plug-In for Python" sometimes failed to run correctly. That has been When opening Text Data, the Text Import Wizard sometimes did not create enough variables when data were blank on the first row. That has been The Time Series Modeler user interface now pastes incorrect syntax when a Transfer Function Delay is requested. Chart Templates now apply data value labels correctly to Pie charts. Creating a clustered bar chart from the Crosstab procedure with string variables could cause the application to close suddenly. That has been Problems changing marker color in scatterplots have been GENLIN Parameter Estimates output now shows the user-specified fixed negative binomial distribution ancillary parameter. Exporting an Output file to Excel failed to export when the Excel file contains formulas. That has been A problem opening some Excel files on Mac OS has been corrected. Legacy graphs sometimes did not sort categories correctly by statistic. That has been Help buttons did not work for the dialogs accessed from the File->Repository menu. That has been A problem with the Statistics Data File Driver and Tableau has been A problem with the Database Wizard import of data from FileMaker Pro was When saving data as Tab- or Comma-delimited data, lines could be broken across rows incorrectly. That has been A problem where COM ISpssItem.GetChild returned a null value when it should not have has been corrected. The Traffic Light sample script now colors Pivot Table cells correctly. At sites with several releases of the application, the Commuter License utility could fail to check out the license for the preferred number of days. That has been Confidence intervals and significance tests (Z) are provided for covariance parameters in Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GENLINMIXED).

5 PM40198 PM36691 ECM ECM ECM ECM PM38687 ECM ECM ECM PM41858 ECM ECM PM38525 PM40480 ECM PM37862 ECM ECM ECM ECM PM41152 PM39489 PM38851 PM42146 In the Syntax Editor, a highlighted block of syntax could sometimes be deleted after it was run using "Run->Selection". That has been Problems with online Help when the user account was set to a roaming profile were corrected. Problems with Find and Replace in the Data Editor have been corrected. A sporadic problem where charts could not be drawn in the Automatic Linear Modeling Model Viewer has been corrected. After applying the patch, exporting to PowerPoint could fail on Windows 7 systems. That has been After applying the patch, scripts could fail on Windows systems. That has been Under some conditions, the Text Import Wizard removed leading spaces. That has been In non-english User Interface Languages, the Visual Binning user interface pasted syntax with incorrect decimal delimiters. That has been Under some conditions, computed categories would not display in Custom Tables. That has been Copying blank cells from Excel and pasting into the Data Editor could result in pasted values of "0". That has been Using the mouse to change rows in the Data Editor (by clicking in a cell in the next row) could cause? to temporarily display in the previous row. That has been Accessing an ODBC data source with Polish characters in username and password now works as expected. A Statistics Client sometimes could not connect to a zlinux Statistics Server. That has been Deleting the Legend now allows the chart to resize correctly. In the Chart Editor, using Properties->Variables to change Element Type of the chart now works as expected. Oneway ANOVA output now displays the correctly-translated title when Output Language is not English. You can now print directly from the Generalized Linear Mixed Models Model Viewer and the Automatic Linear Modeling Model Viewers, and the documentation has been updated. Order for displayed labels in the TwoStep Cluster Model Viewer views is now consistent. Editing a Database Query (.spq) that contains Polish characters now works as expected. A problem with the alignment of Text Output for Traditional Chinese was corrected. Text in a Log File sometimes did not print or export correctly. That has been Performance reading a large dataset from a Text file has been improved. Scripting CaptionText Property now works correctly. On a Linux 64-bit Statistics Server, syntax files could cause the application to close suddenly when they included VALUE LABELS commands. That has been Using Ctrl+V to paste in the Syntax Editor could cause the text to be pasted

6 PM40124 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM PM36673 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM PM38227 PM39918 ECM twice. That has been When creating charts with a GGRAPH command, and using SPLIT FILE, the subtitle containing the split information could appear in the center of the page, instead of at the top of the page as expected. That has been Minor tick marks now display on charts when requested in the Chart Editor. Merge Files->Add Cases failed to create the new file when the external data file contained "[]" characters. That has been Converting large numbers (16-digit) to strings could result in the last digit being lost. That has been The Partial Least Squares Regression (PLS) extension command handled weights incorrectly. That has been Neural Networks Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) Predicted Probabilities did not agree with the calculation described in the online Help. That has been fixed, the online Help was correct. Aggregate could produce incorrect results when the input data were hexadecimal. That has been (question to Vladimir if we changed the code) Custom Tables table builder could display comma instead of dot for summary statistics. That has been Deleting variables in the Data Editor could result in the deleted variable's name still being displayed. That has been Copy and Paste in the Data Editor is now as fast as it was in previous releases. Under some conditions, the DATASET COPY command could mark the original file as having been modified. That has been With some combinations of blank cells, copying columns of data from Excel 97 into and pasting into the Data Editor could paste incorrectly. That has been In rare cases, Run Pending Transformations was not enabled in the Data Editor when it should have been. That has been The documentation for CASESTOVARS /RENAME and /SEPARATOR subcommands has been improved. The Multiple Correspondence Analysis user interface now accepts smallest possible positive value for convergence criterion. The Visual Binning user interface now accepts cutpoints with positive values less than 1.0. Changes to custom dialogs are now consistently saved. The Database Wizard "Limit retrieved cases" step now allows unlimited cases to be retrieved. Documentation for Correlations and Imputed Missing Data was clarified. The Survival procedure now creates a correct Log Survival Plot with a log of the variable on the y-axis. A problem with Scatterplot Spikes to Fit Line in the Chart Editor was corrected. In the Chart Editor, using Properties->Variables to change Style of the cluster variable in a clustered bar chart now works as expected. The Algorithms documentation for Crosstabs now includes the algorithms for the column proportion tests (PROP and BPROP).

7 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM PM39990 PM41760 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM Various problems with Japanese translations in the user interface and output have been corrected. The Network License Manager sometimes issued an irrelevant warning about look-and-feel. That has been A problem with Hardware Keys not being recognized was On Mac OS, for redundant Network License Managers, LSHOST variable was not correctly created during installation. That has been On Mac OS, A Network license problem was resolved so that now Commuter licenses can be successfully checked out. The Database Wizard Results panel sometimes did not display the entire SQL statement. That has been When editing an existing query in the Database Wizard, changes made directly to the SQL statement were sometimes not saved. That has been Using the Statistics Data File Driver to import a Statistics dataset (*.sav) into Excel or Access 2007 did not bring in Missing Values when they were defined as ranges. That has been Custom Colors can now be selected in the Viewer tab of the Edit->Options user interface. Copy Special default format now persists across sessions. The case of letters in variable names is now preserved when saving a data file to Stata. A problem moving a Log item in the Outline Pane of the Output Viewer was corrected. In Print Preview and when Exporting to PowerPoint, inserted long titles are now automatically wrapped. When printing layered Pivot Tables, a bank page would sometimes appear between the layers. That has been A combination of copy, paste and entering a "%" could cause values in Pivot Table cells to disappear. That has been When exporting Pivot Tables to Excel, the formatting of large numbers is now preserved. On RedHat Linux, the production facility sometimes issued an irrelevant warning about a missing file. That has been PM40090 On 64-bit Windows, scripts would sometimes fail to run with an "ERROR : (16305) No error" message. That has been ECM PM38820 ECM ECM ECM PM37999 Running a script on Pivot Table output could cause some table headings to automatically realign to the center. That has been Running a very large stepwise Regression in Distributed Mode, could cause the application to close suddenly. Problems setting the value of SPSS_COMMUTE_MAX_LIFE have been In the Syntax Editor, splitting the Window could cause the 'Go to previous/next error in syntax' toolbar buttons to disable. That has been Changes to "Syntax Color Coding: Quotes" on the Syntax Editor Tab of the Edit->Options user interface now persist.

8 ECM PM36879 ECM ECM PM39387 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM PM39305 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM On the Syntax Editor Tab of the Edit->Options user interface, the "Automatically open Error Tracking pane" checkbox now works correctly. When opening Text Data, the Text Import Wizard sometimes failed to import some values with Fixed Width and multiple-line case data. That has been Problems with the display of the toolbar buttons on the Open Data user interface were corrected. Missing Value handling on Pie Charts from Frequencies now works as described in the documentation. ROC Curve chart X-axis now displays 0 at the origin, instead of displaying a margin. A problem with the display of Panel Charts when Category Order is changed in the Chart Editor has been corrected. Drag-and-drop of a reference line in the Chart Editor now works as expected when date variable is used in the chart. Logging off of Windows without first exiting the application could cause an unknown software exception. That has been Entering data into a large file while that file was being saved could cause cases to display incorrectly. That has been Under some circumstances, date values used as break variables may display as asterisks in the output because there is not enough space to display the date value. Documentation has been updated to describe corrective actions. "Display variable names" on the right-click menu in the Define Multiple Response Sets user interface now works as expected. The Algorithms documentation for TSMODEL now includes the algorithms for the transfer functions. Syntax documentation for MATRIX DATA was clarified. A word was missing in the Overview Help Topic for TREE. That has been Information about LSERVOPTS was added to the Network License Manager Administrator's Guide. Instructions for specifying the Data Direct Script have been corrected in the IBM SPSS Statistics Administrator's Guide. After selecting a subset of data in the Data Editor window, question marks could appear where the values were Cut. That has been With a very long syntax command, there could be a delay between when the syntax was run and when an error message was produced. The delay has been A spelling error in the Algorithms Help for the RANK procedure has been corrected. An error in the formula for DISCRIMINANT standardized canonical discriminant function coefficients has been corrected. Help topics which discuss "Offset" terms have been clarified. A problem where "Help->Topics->Data Preparation Option->Introduction to Data Preparation" displayed the wrong topic has been corrected. A problem where online documentation for AREG, ARIMA and EXSMOOTH was not available has been corrected. A problem with the Spanish translation of the word "split" has been corrected.

9 ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM PM40772 ECM Some Analyze menu items displayed the Multiple Imputation icon when they should not have. That has been corrected. On the General Tab of the Edit->Options user interface, the "Scroll to new output" checkbox now works correctly. A version number error in the About box for the Statistics Adapters for Collaboration and Deployment Services was corrected. The documentation for scripting and Excel formats (.biff vs. biff5) was clarified. A shortcut that launched 'statisticsb.exe' is no longer installed. accessibility.properties is now available to all users. It is in the installation directory. A syntax file where comments have been added using the Syntax Editor 'Toggle Comment Selection' icon to comment out a command can now be Saved (instead of having to use Save As). On the Syntax Editor Tab of the Edit->Options user interface, the "Paste syntax from selection or cursor" item now correctly pastes for Generalized Linear Mixed Models and Automatic Linear Modeling. When opening Text Data with fixed width, the Text Import Wizard preview window stopped at 2850 columns even when the data were wider. That has been The Algorithms documentation for CATREG now includes the algorithms computing Standard Error Beta when Bootstrapping is used.