Release notes - IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Data Model 6 Patch 1

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Data Model 6 Patch 1 is available. Compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues are addressed.

Description

The 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.

In the past, market research software often stored survey data in nonstandard formats making it difficult to share data between different families of data collection and analysis tools. The Data Model takes advantage of industry-standard, open technologies, so that you can collect and process data using any conventional application, such as Microsoft Excel. The Data Model allows you to work with the data independently of the underlying storage format. This means that you are no longer tied to any one product when accessing data and products are no longer tied to one particular data storage format. This gives you greater flexibility and improved workflow.

Refer to Readme.txt in the root installation directory for information pertaining to the IBM SPSS Data Collection license agreement.

System requirements and installation

When you run the IBM SPSS Data Collection Data Model 6 Patch 1 installer on your machine, it will verify that Data Model is installed, and install only the required files. If Data Model is not installed, you must first install the application from the IBM SPSS Data Collection Data Model 6 installation CD.

Important:

Ensure that you backup all customizable files prior to installing the patch. For example, many of the application configuration files can be customized to meet your business requirements. The patch will overwrite these files.
Ensure all applications are closed before starting the patch installation. The IBM SPSS Data Collection Data Model 6 Patch 1 installer may initiate a system reboot to complete the installation procedure.

Caution:

Do not attempt to install IBM SPSS Data Collection Data Model 6 Patch 1 over the following products:

Release 5.6 or earlier.

Installing the patch

Copy the IBM SPSS Data Collection Data Model 6.00.010.exe file to your computer, and double click the file. You will need to have administrative privileges, and if you installed the products using a specific user, you should log on to the machine as that user to install the patch.

Uninstalling the patch

You cannot use the Windows Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs feature to uninstall the patch. If you need to uninstall the patched application, you can do so by running the patch executable file.

Notes

IBM SPSS Data Collection does not support products patched at different levels. When the patch installer prompts you to select which products to upgrade, any products currently installed on your system are selected by default. If you elect not to patch a product installed on your system, the patch installer removes that product.
When you install the patch, it will add an entry to the Windows Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs list, indicating that it is present.
If Windows automatically repairs Data Model after the patch has been installed, you will need to uninstall and install the patch again in order to restore the patched files for the repaired product. A repair will typically occur only after one or more product files have been deleted. When a repair takes place, the product installation dialog may appear, and details of the repair may also be logged in the Windows event log.
If you uninstall the patch, it will delete all the new files that it installed but it cannot restore the original versions of files that it updated. Therefore, uninstalling the patch can result in Data Model not working correctly.

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

Known problems

At time of publication, the following issues were known:

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.

Release notes - IBM SPSS Data Collection Data Model 6 Patch 1