Release notes - IBM SPSS Data Collection Server 6

Contents

• Description
• Compatibility issues with earlier versions
• System requirements and installation
• Known problems

Description

• IBM SPSS Data Collection Interviewer Server Administration — used for running a variety of Data Collection Web activities on a project of your choice. It provides management and maintenance facilities for editing projects, user administration, generating usage reports, and managing logs.
• IBM SPSS Data Collection Web Interviews — a collection of associated applications and activities that are used to build and run Web-based interviewing questionnaires.
• IBM SPSS Data Collection Phone Interviews — a collection of associated applications and activities that are used to build and run phone-based interviewing questionnaires.
• IBM SPSS Data Collection Author Server Edition — used for creating and previewing surveys for use in a variety of output formats. Author Server Edition is deployed from the Interviewer Server. When you have created your survey, you can activate it to an Interviewer Server or open it in Paper to format it and add scanning control information.
• IBM SPSS Data Collection Survey Reporter Server Edition — a survey and market research analysis tool that provides options for creating tables and analyzing the data collected from surveys. Survey Reporter Server Edition is deployed from the Interviewer Server.
• IBM SPSS Data Collection Survey Reporter Developer Kit — provides a server installation of the components needed to automate the processing of data management and analysis scripts. This enables organizations to benefit from the additional processing power of a server when running large numbers of scripts.
• IBM SPSS Data Collection Survey Tabulation — a browser-based survey and market research analysis tool. Web Reports for Surveys provides options for creating tables and analyzing the data collected from surveys.
• IBM SPSS Data Collection Dialer Connection — provides a connection to Dialer, an autodialer for Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI).
• IBM SPSS Data Collection Remote Administration — an Interviewer Server activity allows you to monitor the remote interviewers working on a given project. Remote Administration is the server component of IBM SPSS Data Collection Interviewer, which remote interviewers use to conduct interviews and synchronize their data. The activity provides status information on each remote interviewer, including the number of interviews completed, the number of suspended interviews, and the last time the interviewer synchronized.
• IBM SPSS Data Collection Data Model — acts as a data access framework that sits between applications and data stored in various formats or database schemas. You can consider the Data Model to be an interpreting or translation service that enables an application to understand the data. This capacity of the Data Model, together with its open architecture, removes the data storage and access restrictions of older, proprietary architectures.
• IBM SPSS Data Collection Developer Library (DDL) — an information-rich resource for anyone learning about and working with Data Collection products. The DDL comes with a number of samples, including scripts, tools, example data, and source code.

For a list of new features in the latest Data Collection Server release, please visit http://www.spss.com/. New features are also listed in each product's “What's new” online help topic and user guide.

Refer to DataCollection6ProductLicenseNotices-final-utf8.txt in the root directory of the installation CD\DVD for information pertaining to IBM SPSS Data Collection 3rd party acknowledgments.

Compatibility issues with earlier versions

System requirements and installation

For information on system requirements and installation, see the IBM SPSS Data Collection Server 6 Installation Guide. The guide is located on the installation CD at: CD:/Documentation/<language>/Server_Installation_Guide.pdf

Known problems

Survey Tabulation

Load balancing

• A number of problems have been found when using Interviewer Server Administration load balancing with Survey Tabulation. It is therefore recommended that you do not use Interviewer Server Administration load balancing with Survey Tabulation. Load balancing using other methods, for example, IIS load balancing or hardware accelerators, works correctly.

Exporting charts to Microsoft Word

• When you use the option to export charts to Microsoft Word, the Word Export component creates the charts using Excel. This requires that Word is installed with the option to embed Excel charts enabled. If this option is not enabled, exports of charts to Word will fail. To verify whether this option is enabled:
  • Start a new document in Word.
  • From the Insert menu, choose Object.
  • From the list of object types, select Microsoft Excel Chart.
  • Click OK.

  If this fails, it generally means that the option is not enabled and you will need to install the option before you can export charts to Word.

General issues

• When text-only elements are used on the top axis of a table, they are displayed as an empty column. You can work around this problem by not using text-only elements on the top of the table. When variables have these elements built in, you can remove them using the Edit Axis dialog box when necessary.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00037702.

• A “RegisterAppWithDPM” error message is encountered when re-installing Survey Tabulation via the Repair option.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00071374.

Author Server Edition

Note: Most of the known problems in this section also apply to Author Desktop Edition

Data Entry Player

• Clicking previous, to go back and change the answer given to a previous iteration of a categorical loop question, results in follow-up questions being skipped. A work-around for this issue is to close and restart the Data Entry Player and reenter the correct grid size.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00150111.

• Questions that are defined as hidden in an unbounded loop are asked in the Data Entry Player. A work-around for this issue is to ensure that labels and categories are not hidden.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00150222.

Questions pane

• The display order of items in the Question pane design view can change when questions are placed into a section.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00028791.

Routings pane

• An exception occurs after redoing a group action, and then clicking the routing pane while pressing the Shift key.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00150037.

Shared Lists pane

• The context menu is missing for shared lists in the Shared Lists pane.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00029383.

• If the name of the shared list is the same as one of its responses' names, the shared list cannot be attached to a question.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00071286.

Question Repository

• The Question Repository features are only applicable when the IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services - Server Adapter for Data Collection is installed on the appropriate IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services server.

  Refer to the topic “IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services - Server Adapter” in the Data Collection Developer Library for more information.

• When inserting a question item with multiple routings, only the first routing is inserted.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00029452.

• A misleading “not authorized” error message is displayed when you fail to access a repository due to a problem with its configuration.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00103674.

• Question icons in the Routing or Question panes do not match the icons in the Insert Questions drop-down box.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00141755.

General issues

• After modifying a routing name, section name, or page name, you cannot undo/redo the modification.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00071419.

• It is not possible to base an If..Goto on special responses.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00052020.

• A CATI routing activated through Author can change the question order when imported into Interviewer Server - mrInterview.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00029392.

• Validating a document does not catch duplicate label declarations. This can cause Interview Preview and Activate to Interviewer Server - mrInterview to fail.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00052022.

• It is not currently possible to use numeric grids for If..Goto items.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00052024.

• When performing an Edit | Replace, all instances are replaced, instead of prompting to replace each found instance.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00029402.

• The Questions pane is not correctly updated when copying questions between Author instances.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00052241.

• Cannot display the correct page after using the script "LoopName.Ask()" in the Routing Section.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00030673.

• The write to data source function is not working correctly. Possible work-arounds include: 1) save the document before adding the data source 2) do not use unsupported data sources.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00150048.

Survey Reporter Server Edition

Note: Most of the known problems in this section also apply to the Survey Reporter Desktop Edition

• You will occasionally encounter an error when populating results using "Sort by Column Significance."

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00029492.

• You cannot change a variable name, and then change the name back to its original value.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00029499.

• When running table results from a .pkd file, Survey Reporter ignores calculations done with the Keep and OP= options applied in Quantum.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00103423.

• The generated data has no value when exporting the triples (museum_asc.xml) and quantumn dataset to DAT format.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00150059.

• The Japanese message, when populating Summary tables with charts, is incorrect.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00150296.

Data Model

• The Quantum DSC does not recognize { as a valid punch character.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00025717.

• It is not possible to call web-service methods via the MSSoapClient from mrScriptBasic.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00150207.

• There is currently no support for unbounded level variables that exist under bounded level variables.

  For more information, refer to ClearQuest defect # ECM00135726.