Statistics and Business Intelligence.
Hello everyone, I’m still a student and I’m very interested in the BI field. But I have an important question. I would like to know if it’s crucial to know well about statistics like the R programming language as I know it’s widely used by the person who works in data mining and data analytics. [...]

Answer Question   |  January 23, 2013  8:21 PM
Business Intelligence, R language, statistics

Statistics (R programming language) and Business Intelligence
Hello everyone, I’m still a student and I’m very interested in the BI field. But I have an important question. I would like to know if it’s crucial to know well about statistics like the R programming language as I know it’s widely used by the person who works in data mining and data analytics. [...]

Answer Question   |  January 23, 2013  5:48 AM
Business Intelligence, R language, statistics

Will litigation against Huawei affect me as a buyer?
I have been working on assessing a few leading network equipment vendors in the likes of Cisco, HP, Juniper, etc., to procure Layer 2 switches. I am currently assessing the capabilities of Huawei and i have been hearing about a litigation raised by Nortel (Avaya) against Huawei on their Layer 2 switches, however, I have [...]

Answer Question   |  November 20, 2012  6:12 PM
Cisco, HP, Huawei, Juniper, Layer 2 switches, Unified Communications, Unified Communications Hardware

Save to older version of SPSS
Can I save a version 20 .sav file to an older version, such as 17?

Answer Question   |  November 2, 2012  11:02 PM
SPSS, SPSS 17

Transfers
I want to transfer everything on on my old hard drive to my new tower. The disk drive on my old computer is broken…can I connect directly (like a usb cable) and do the transfer?

Answer Question   |  October 22, 2012  6:45 PM
new computer, old computer, Transfer

Bare Metal Restores Windows Servers
This is kind of long but I am hoping someone can offer advice…. Our shop has about 400 windows server images, about half VM guests, about half physical. They are a mix of Win2000 (decreasing but still there), Win2003, and Win2008 server. My concern is the physical servers. We used to use Tivoli Storage Manager [...]

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  4:49 PM
Dell PowerEdge, PowerEdge servers, Syncsort

Reoccurring WebEx Meetings
Can WebEx meetings be scheduled to occur every week?

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  5:59 PM
WebEx

How to speed up AS/400 SQL?
We have SQL on our Data Warehouse written using SHOWCASE. The SQL could be better, it is not SO bad for something writen with a drag and drop gui, but the execution is far too slow – 12 minutes to extract data from the main 3.5 million record file, with several left outer joins. So, [...]

Answer Question   |  June 8, 2011  8:46 AM
AS/400 - DDS, AS/400 SQL, Data warehouse, DDS, Showcase

Statistical significance and CIs for Population Survey
Hi, I have a data set that is generated from a population survey of a licensed profession in the state. I have a 63% response rate. I am generating demographics (age, gender, race, degree level distributions) and descriptives for age, hours worked etc. How do I generate CIs and statistical significance of these distributions and [...]

Answer Question   |  May 19, 2011  5:20 PM
Data analysis, SPSS, SPSS Data Editor, Statistical analysis software

Designing a single query using SPUFI
Hi, I am new to Mainframe..using QMF.Instead of using multiple select queries,my TL told me to design a single query.How to execute the query in SQL execution engine SPUFI??? Please tell the steps involved in creating a dataset & import the results?

Answer Question   |  February 16, 2011  11:17 AM
Mainframe, Mainframe SPUFI, QMF, SPUFI

Generate binary dataset after weighing cases in SPSS
Hi, I have some variables that are of binary format (0,1) and of which I produce cross-tabs. In the case that there is a weighted variable, SPSS “imputes” some of the values “weighting” them either as (0) or (1). However, there is no way to know which values have been replaced (I cannot find any [...]

Answer Question   |  December 16, 2010  4:48 AM
Binary data, Partitioned Data Set, SPSS, SPSS Data Editor

Pasw Statistic Data Editor
I want to know about how PasW do Weight Cases? I mean How can we do to weight case a number list manually? I want to know the algorithm of doing weight cases in PasW Statistic Data Editor (SPSS 18) thanks

Answer Question   |  December 14, 2010  9:33 AM
Data Mining, Data mining/analysis, SPSS Data Editor, Weight Case

Comprehensive distributed software management policy and standards
Could anyone share or provide input on a comprehensive distributed software management policy and standards that prohibit non-developer access to source code and prohibit developers from creating executable code and placing it in migration folders (which then can be moved to test and production)?

Answer Question   |  November 17, 2010  12:40 PM
Compliance checklist, IT Compliance - Policies, Security management, Software Management

SAP Error messages
Could someone please tell me if they have seen this error before and what it means? Improper Statistical Cost Object Posting not allowed.

Answer Question   |  November 11, 2010  5:19 PM
SAP, SAP error messages, SAP errors, Statistical software

Remove double qoutes from text file using SED in SQL 2003
This goes along with my previous question “How to remove specific lines from a text files using either vbs or bat.” I am having issues removing the double quotes our app uses in its export as a separator for some fields. The command I use in ssed is ========CODE=================== “s/”//g” =========END OF CODE============ But it [...]

Answer Question   |  November 10, 2010  9:20 PM
SQL Server, SQL Server 2003, Text manipulation, Windows XP Professional SP3

CHKIN Command in iseries
What is the use of CHKIN command and where do we use this? i have gone through infocenter but couldn’t understand …… “The Check In Object (CHKIN) command checks in an object that had previously been checked out.” can anybody explain the use of it?

Answer Question   |  November 2, 2010  11:11 AM
AS/400, AS/400 command functions, AS/400 commands, iSeries, work management

How to remove specific lines from a text files using either vbs or bat.
We have a text file that is a result of an export from an application we have. We use the following bat file to rename and remove blank lines from it based on the way it exports the export options/format cannot be changed. I would like a way to add to this bat file a [...]

Answer Question   |  November 9, 2010  5:07 PM
Batch file, Batch job, SQL, Text manipulation, VBS, Visual Basic Script, Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition

In Virtual Directory In IIS
how to Hendel Error like following  The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. ——————————————————————————– A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource ‘http://localhost/College_BIPS/Admin/Default.aspx’….

Answer Question   |  November 10, 2010  12:17 PM
C# .NET, IIS, IIS Virtual Directories, Virtual directory, XML

SAS date macro variable
Hello, i’m new in SAS I’m writing this code below :     data _test_ ; d1 = put(mdy(month(today())-   1,1,year(today())-1),yymmdd10.);     call symput(‘d1′,”‘”||put(d1,9.)||” 23:59:59′”) ; d2 = put(mdy(month(today())-   1,1,year(today())),yymmdd10.);     call symput(‘d2′,”‘”||put(d2,9.)||” 23:59:59′”) ;     run ;     %put d1;   My question is 1. My understanding is %put [...]

Answer Question   |  October 11, 2010  5:12 PM
Macros, Programming Languages, SAS 9.2, SAS programming

Macro date a year from today
Does any know how to create a year date from today ? for example today = 9/3/2010 I would like to get the macro variable that give 9/1/2009

Answer Question   |  October 11, 2010  3:36 PM
Date calculation, Macros, Programming Languages, SAS programming