IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.0 (1) IF007 (IF0013)

interim fix: 27.0-IM-S27STATS-ALL-IF007

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,pSeries, Linux 64-bit,x86_64, Linux 64-bit,zSeries, Mac OSX
Applies to versions: 27.0.0.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.0.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0. It resolves APAR PH29939: Fisher EXACT test not computed, error "Cannot be computed because unable to open temporary file", fails on Mac, works on Windows.

interim fix: 27.0-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF003

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,pSeries, Linux 64-bit,x86_64, Linux 64-bit,zSeries, Mac OSX, Windows 64-bit, x86
Applies to versions: 27.0.0.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.0.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0 on all platforms. It addresses PSIRT: CVE-2020-14577, CVE-2020-14578, CVE-2020-14579, CVE-2020-2601, and CVE-2020-2590 Vulnerabilities in the IBM JRE.

interim fix: 27.0-IM-S27STATC-MAC-IF006

Platforms: Mac OSX
Applies to versions: 27.0.0.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.0.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27. It resolves APAR PH29610: Inexplicable backend crashes on Statistics Subscription or Statistics 27 for macOS.

interim fix: 27.0-IM-S27STATS-LINUX64-IF005

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,x86_64
Applies to versions: 27.0.0.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.0.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Concurrent Licensing Tools 9.8 - License Manager Linux x86-64. It resolves APAR PH29797: Unable to check out a commuter license for SPSS and below and for AMOS and below with SLM 9.6.0.0028 on RHEL 7.3 and 7.6.

interim fix: 27.0-IM-S27STATC-WIN64-IF004

Platforms: Windows 64-bit, x86
Applies to versions: 27.0.0.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.0.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27 on Windows. It resolves APAR PH28875: Exported Excel file is empty after SPSS 27 was launched via double click on a SAV file and a custom table is exported as XLSX file.

interim fix: 27.0-IM-S27STATC-WIN64-MACOSX-IF002

Platforms: Mac OSX, Windows 64-bit, x86
Applies to versions: 27.0.0.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.0.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27. It resolves APAR PH27340: Propensity score matching PSM not working in SPSS 27, error "FUZZY is not defined".

interim fix: 27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF013

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,x86_64, Mac OSX, Windows 64-bit, x86
Applies to versions: 27.0.1.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.1.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0. It addresses APAR PH35914: Table Properties max column label width property does not apply.

interim fix: 27.0.1-IM-S2701STATS-ALL-IF002

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,pSeries, Linux 64-bit,x86_64, Linux 64-bit,zSeries
Applies to versions: 27.0.1.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.1.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0 on all platforms. It addresses PSIRT: CVE-2020-27221 Vulnerabilities in IBM JRE with JRE Jan 2021 CPU.

interim fix: 27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF012

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,x86_64, Mac OSX, Windows 64-bit, x86
Applies to versions: 27.0.1.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.1.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0. It addresses APAR PH36280: SPSS_INC TRANS returns error in 27.0.1 and 28 Beta, works fine in SPSS 24,25 and 26.

interim fix: 27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF011

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,x86_64, Mac OSX, Windows 64-bit, x86
Applies to versions: 27.0.1.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.1.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0. It addresses APAR PH32790: Problem exporting tables to Excel with MODIFYSHEET where the sheet name contains an Umlaut, file cannot be opened in Excel anymore.

interim fix: 27.0.1-IM-S27STATS-LINUX64-IF010

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,x86_64
Applies to versions: 27.0.1.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.1.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0. It addresses APAR PH34998: 27.0.1 on Linux server: on German locale comma is not displayed as decimal symbol although it should.

interim fix: 27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF009

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,x86_64, Mac OSX, Windows 64-bit, x86
Applies to versions: 27.0.1.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.1.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0. It addresses APAR PH34703: Statistics 27.0.1 hangs when save or retrieve file to/from subfolder of network link which contains Hebrew characters in folder name.

interim fix: 27.0.1-IM-S27STAT-WIN-MAC-IF008

Platforms: Mac OSX, Windows 64-bit, x86
Applies to versions: 27.0.1.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.1.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0. It addresses APAR PH34545: NPTESTS: Pairwise graph sometimes incorrect.

interim fix: 27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF007

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,pSeries, Linux 64-bit,x86_64, Linux 64-bit,zSeries, Mac OSX, Windows 64-bit, x86
Applies to versions: 27.0.1.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.1.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0 on all platforms. It addresses APAR PH34497: Unable to open a *.XLSM file in 27.0.1.

interim fix: 27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF006

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,pSeries, Linux 64-bit,x86_64, Linux 64-bit,zSeries, Mac OSX, Windows 64-bit, x86
Applies to versions: 27.0.1.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.1.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0 on all platforms. It addresses APAR PH32790: Problem exporting tables to Excel with MODIFYSHEET where the sheet name contains an Umlaut, file cannot be opened in Excel anymore.

interim fix: 27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF003

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,pSeries, Linux 64-bit,x86_64, Linux 64-bit,zSeries, Mac OSX, Windows 64-bit, x86
Applies to versions: 27.0.1.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.1.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0 on all platforms. It addresses APAR PH32604: OUTPUT MODIFY change font size on edited cells although not defined, and APAR PH32979: OUTPUT MODIFY resizes text instead of applying text color.

interim fix: 27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF001

Platforms: Linux 64-bit,pSeries, Linux 64-bit,x86_64, Linux 64-bit,zSeries, Mac OSX, Windows 64-bit, x86
Applies to versions: 27.0.1.0
Upgrades to: 27.0.1.0
Severity: 30 - Moderate Impact/High Probability of Occurrence
Categories: Usability
Abstract: This is an interim fix for IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0 on all platforms. It addresses APAR PH23220: Open a syntax file with Hebrew text takes too long to open.

Bootstrapping and Data Preparation are now standard functionality

One of the biggest changes in this release is that the Bootstrapping and Data Preparation modules are now included with SPSS Statistics base, meaning that they are now part of the standard functionality of the package.

Bootstrapping is a powerful way to estimate statistical values and ensure analytical models are reliable and accurate. It can be used to enhance a number of procedures including descriptives, means, crosstabs, correlations, regression. It works by repeatedly resampling the data file to derive more robust estimates of parameters values such as means, standard deviations and model coefficients.

Data Preparation is a veritable Swiss army knife of functions that allow users to identify and fix data errors or potential problems in their datasets. Using a combination of basic checks, validation rules or anomaly detection algorithms, Data Preparation generates new variables and output reports that pinpoint problematic cases or unusual records. It includes the ability to find duplicate records, perform optimal binning and prepare the data for multivariate modelling by changing date and time fields, excluding low quality fields, handling outliers and missing values, rescaling interval fields and filtering out poorly performing predictor variables.

New analytical functionality

Version 27 now includes two key enhancements to statistical analysis. The first enhancement takes the form of new effect size calculations. Analysts are aware that in statistics it’s possible to reject a null hypothesis using a probability test even when the difference or relationship between variables or groups is very small. For this reason, statisticians often use techniques such as effect size to measure the magnitude of the observed relationship as well. One of the most common effect size statistics used for comparing pairs of mean values is Cohen’s d. For the independent samples T-test, Cohen’s d is determined by calculating the mean difference between the two groups, and then dividing the result by the pooled standard deviation (basically the weighted average of the two standard deviations). Generally speaking, Cohen’s d point estimates of around 0.2 are regarded as small effects, values around 0.5 as medium-sized effects and those above 0.8 as large effects.


Figure 1 – New effect size calculations for an independent samples T-test. Cohen’s d point estimate of -0.763 shows a reasonably strong effect in the difference between two sample means

The second analytical enhancement is the introduction of power analysis to SPSS Statistics. Power analysis plays a key role in the planning and design of research studies. Statistical tests are used to look for evidence that you can reject the null hypothesis and conclude that there is an actual effect or relationship in the population. However, with any statistical test, there is always a possibility that the procedure will indicate there is a difference or effect when in reality one does not exist. Statistical Power calculates the probability that your data and analysis are sufficiently robust to detect the relationship in the first place. It is generally accepted that the power value should be 0.8 or greater. In other words, you should have at least an 80% or greater of finding a “statistically significant” difference when there is one. For this reason, Power analysis is often used to calculate factors like required sample size prior to the data being collected.


Figure 2 – New power analysis output for an independent samples T-test showing a statistical power of 0.889 for a test with a significance threshold of 0.05.

A further cosmetic change is the ability to change the display of results from the bivariate correlations procedure. Using the new option, only the correlation matrix table’s lower triangle is presented in the output and the diagonal values can be suppressed.


Figure 3 – A correlation matrix with only the lower triangle of results displayed and the diagonal values suppressed

Charting enhancements

The Chart Builder dialog in SPSS now includes the ability to create bubble plots. Bubble plots allow scatterplots to vary the display of data points according to the levels of an additional variable. For example, in figure 4 we can see the circles in the chart are larger for older individuals and smaller for younger people.


Figure 4 – The new bubble plot option for scatter plots in the Chart Builder

Another change is the ability to request that charts are formatted using one of seven pre-built chart templates within the Chart Builder dialog.


Figure 5 – The new chart template menu within the Chart Builder dialog


Figure 6 – Scatterplot formatted by a selection of the new pre-built chart templates

IBM have also added the ability to export graphical output in high resolution formats. When the ‘None (Graphics only)’ option is selected as the document type in the Export Output dialog, the default file type is now set to Production Ready Postscript (*.eps), which is a high resolution image format.

System enhancements

A valuable new function for all users of SPSS Statistics is the addition of an automatic recovery feature. Auto-Recovery is designed to recover unsaved files and content in instances where the application quits unexpectedly. You can choose to enable/disable the automatic recovery feature (the feature is enabled by default), select a time interval (in minutes) between saving files, and view or change the auto-recovery file location. Upon relaunching SPSS Statistics after an unexpected exit, the user is presented with an IBM SPSS Statistics error report, which allows them to enter information about the session prior to the unexpected exit. After leaving the exit report, they are presented with the Auto-Recovery dialog, which provides options for recovering prior session data or deleting the saved session data.


Figure 7 – Options to enable or alter the Auto-Recovery function

A further key change to SPSS Statistics is that the search facility has been updated to provide results that include menu dialogs, help topics, case studies and syntax reference.


Figure 8 – The updated search facility showing results from multiple sources within the package

Other improvements

In version 27 there are some further changes to the privacy settings. The Options dialog now includes a Privacy tab that enables users to prevent the application from sharing error reports and usage/performance data with IBM. Conversely, the Help menu now provides an Issue Reporter dialog. This dialog enables users to enter information regarding any issues they may encounter when working with the product to alert IBM to possible defects or notable performance problems.

Finally, the ability to apply APA (American Psychological Association) style table settings has been added to the Cell Display dialog in Crosstabs and the main dialog in Frequencies. The setting produces output tables that adhere to APA style guidelines.


Figure 9 – The option to create APA style tables has been added to the Frequencies and Crosstabs dialogs.

Statistical Procedures and Enhancements

Z-Tests and confidence intervals for Proportions and differences in Proportions: For One-Sample, Paired-Samples, Independent-Samples analyses.

Found under the Analyze > Compare Means menu, the new Proportions procedure allows users to test for differences in population proportions and construct confidence intervals on observed differences using a variety of methods for each type of analysis.


Reliability Analysis Enhancement: McDonald's Omega

As part of the Reliability procedure, McDonald's Omega allows users an alternative to the Cronbach’s Alpha statistic. To find this enhancement go to Analyze > Scale > Reliability Analysis, and under the Model dropdown on the Reliability Analysis dialog, select Omega.


Bivariate Correlation Enhancement: Added Confidence Intervals

This enhancement in SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0 is found in the dialog menu of Bivariate Correlations under the Confidence Intervals sub dialog. Users will be able to set the confidence interval parameter, apply the bias adjustment if desired for Pearson Correlation, and choose between various methods for other correlation coefficients.


Along with the new additions above we have also included confidence intervals for CONTRAST output in one-way ANOVA, added bootstrapping and multiple imputation to Proportions, and made an enhancement to multiple imputation predictive mean matching to enable the ability to choose the number of potential matching cases.

Usability Improvements

Session Management: Restore Points

This extension to the auto-recovery functionality introduced in SPSS Statistics 27.0.0.0 allows users to save a point in time in their analysis that users can revert back to if needed later in the analysis, while still enabling the user to continue down the current analytic path. Session Management is found on the Welcome Dialog on the Restore Points tab next to the Recent Files and Sample Files tabs. On the Restore Points tab users will find both their Auto-Recovery files, as well as saved Restore Points.


Output Enhancements: Editor Experience

Several enhancements were introduced in SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0 for Chart Builder, as well as the Table & Chart Editors. These improvements decrease the number of clicks needed to get customizable output in the application by utilizing new toolbar additions and experiences.


An improvement to SPSS Statistics Syntax was also introduced in SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0 which allows users to select variables from the active data set using type ahead functionality. This will improve efficiency in writing scripts and make it easier for users to find the correct variables to reference from the active data set.

Quality Improvements: Along with new features and productivity enhancements there were also several quality improvements made to the application for 27.0.1.0.

IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0.1.0 Fix List

PH03752 Import of Salesforce DB: SQLDriverConnect failed :[IBM SPSS][ODBC Salesforce driver]A Java VM has already been created
PH13257 Reading SJIS .csv with Japanese OLANG makes GET DATA "hang"
PH14703 CDB Nodes can't get some properties with PSAPI APIs in Modeler Adapter
PH17138 STATS_RELIMP Extensions command fails for non-installing user
PH19630 Export to Excel 2016 from SPSS 26.0.0.1 merges cells
PH25333 Custom Table GUI does not open after adding value labels
PH26234 SPSS 26 and 27 crashes running an XCHART command when Unicode mode is ON
PH26924 SPSS 26 Server: Error # 1407 SAVE command fails when storing to a NAS mounted drive on Linux
PH27006 Python script does not run properly in SPSS 27 table title with special character not displayed correctly
PH27237 SPSS Statistics 27: SpssSyntaxDoc.SetSyntax does not work properly for Korean language and Python 3
PH27327 External Python3 cannot find Python Plug-Ins
PH27445 Statistics client jobs run from Python pull license from the wrong redundant LM server
PH27941 X-axis chart label is empty and does not persist when edited
PH28468 "Find" field does not persist values when you do Find and Replace
PH28511 Copy/Paste MGO Scatter chart - Data point labels not copied
PH28803 SPLIT FILE LAYERED and OUTPUT MODIFY (for APA style) cannot be run together
PH28875 Exported Excel file is empty after SPSS 27 was launched via double click on a SAV file and a custom table is exported as XLSX file
PH28941 OUTPUT EXPORT: Export to Excel with non-English value in SHEET keyword fails
PH29546 Paste Tool button does not paste
PH29610 Inexplicable backend crashes on Statistics Subscription or Statistics 27 for macOS
PH29797 Unable to check out a commuter license for SPSS 26 and below and for AMOS 27 and below with SLM 9.6.0.0028 on RHEL 7.3 and 7.6
PH30304 Unable to import a Japanese CSV file into SPSS 27 but works fine in SPSS 26. Error#2278
PH31898 AGGREGATE crashes backend on Statistics 26 FP1 and 27.0 macOS
PH31911 Temp.txt file in SPSS 27 installation directory include a wrong license code (and also wrong in 26)
PH31912 The Graphboard's folder path created for Active Directory user is incorrect.
PH31915 Subscription and OnPrem can not start by domain user account because the user do not have write access for a specific local folder
PH31916 Extension command installer malfunction
PH31917 CSPLAN: GUI allows invalid values
PH31918 Chart Builder - can't select installed template
PH31919 MULTIPLE IMPUTATION: Pooled result doesn't show in one place but shows in another
PH31920 XTABS > METHOD=EXACT: Processor terminates after several minutes then the app vanishes
PH31921 Value labels causes Stats to crash
PH31922 PROPORTIONS: Impossible p-values for given test
PH31923 Custom script failing after deprecating Python 2
PH31924 Missing UI indicators of MULTIPLE IMPUTATION status
PH31925 Analyze > Mixed Model > Linear first dialog to large in 1280 x 720
PH31926 Show License for Base license should show the added Bootstrapping and Data preparation
PH31927 Not all of R script is being observed in CDB node by Modeler
PH31928 Significance value of "<.001"shown when the correlation is perfect; should be sysmis
PH31929 Undo Cut and Paste can not get data to original status
PH31930 Model drop-down list of Reliability Analysis pastes wrong syntax in non-English UI
PH31931 Chart Builder: Cannot Use Keyboard to Create Charts
PH31932 Chart Editor font editing options have disappeared
PH31933 Issue with SVG item not present within Drop-Down list within Export Dialog

SPSS_CLIENT_27.0_MAC_OS.pkg
SPSS_CLIENT_64-BIT_27.0_WIN.exe

27.0-IM-S27STATC-MAC-IF006.zip
27.0-IM-S27STATS-LINUX64-IF005.zip
27.0-IM-S27STATS-ALL-IF007.zip
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27.0-IM-S27STATC-WIN64-IF004.zip
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IBM_SPSS_STA_CL_64-BIT27.0.1.0.exe
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27.0.1-IM-S27STAT-WIN-MAC-IF008.zip
27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF001.zip
27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF003.zip
27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF006.zip
27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF007.zip
27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF009.zip
27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF011.zip
27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF012.zip
27.0.1-IM-S27STATC-ALL-IF013.zip
27.0.1-IM-S27STATS-LINUX64-IF010.zip
27.0.1-IM-S2701STATS-ALL-IF002.zip

Operating Systems (windows):
- Windows 10 Home
- Windows 10 Pro
- Windows 10 Enterprise
- Windows 10 Education
- Windows 8.1 Standard
- Windows 8.1 Professional
- Windows 8.1 Enterprise
Operating Systems (macOs):
- macOS High Sierra 10.13
- macOS Mojave 10.14
- macOS Catalina 10.15

Processor: 2 GHz or faster
Disk Space: 4 gigabytes (GB) of available hard-disk space
Display: 1024*768 or higher screen resolution
Memory: 8 gigabyte(GB) of RAM or more is recommended for 64-bit Client platforms.
Other Hardware: Minimum free disk space: 4.0 gigabyte (GB) for installation;