Summary

Table 1. Summary of command line switches
Switch Affects output type Parameter Description Default
-f na command syntax filename Name of the command syntax file to run in batch mode. Must be the first switch on the command line. Omit for interactive mode. none
-type na text | html | sav | oxml Type of output. Must be the second switch on the command line. text
-hide text, HTML, and OXML L W N E G P T C R M Do not produce the specified object. See the topic Controlling Output Items for more information.
-show text, HTML,and OXML L W N E G P T C R M Produce the specified object. See the topic Controlling Output Items for more information.
-notes text, HTML, and OXML na Produce information about how the output was created. Do not show notes
-nfc text na Do not produce table footnotes and captions. Omit to get footnotes and captions. Produce footnotes and captions
-nl text, HTML,and OXML na Do not produce all table layers (produce the top layer only). Omit to get all layers. Produce all layers
-top text, HTML,and OXML na Same as -nl. See -nl
-drop text, HTML,and OXML name(s) of tables Do not produce the specified pivot table(s). Produce all tables for a procedure
-keep text, HTML, and OXML name(s) of tables Produce only the specified pivot tables for a procedure. Do not produce the rest of the procedure's tables. Produce all tables for a procedure
-pb text na Page breaks. Omit for no page breaks. No page breaks
-t text na Tab-separated output. Omit to get space-separated output. Space-separated
-n space-separated text integer (the maximum number of characters for table column width) Omit for automatic sizing of column width. Automatic sizing
-rs space-separated text character to use as the row separator in tables (specify the character in quotation marks) Omit to use _ as the row separator. "_"
-cs space-separated text character to use as the column separator in tables (specify the character in quotation marks) Omit to use | as the column separator. "|"
-i text, HTML, and OXML na Forces the Batch Facility to use interactive syntax rules in batch mode. Use batch syntax rules in batch mode
-k text, HTML, and OXML na Allows the Batch Facility to continue processing after some errors. Stop processing when an error is encountered
-LC_ALL text, HTML,and OXML server locale Specifies the locale that the Batch Facility should use when producing output. The default setting for the server computer
-language text, HTML, and OXML de | en | es | fr | it | ja | ko | pl ru | zh_CN | zh_TW Specifies the language used for error messages and other output. English
-encoding text, HTML, and OXML windows Specifies encoding used for error messages and other output. Only Windows encoding is currently available. Windows
-unicode N/A on|off Turns Unicode mode on or off. When Unicode mode is off, jobs run in code page mode, which is the current locale encoding. In releases previous to 21, Batch Facility jobs started in code page mode. on
-out na output file name Name of the output file. Use this command line switch for batch mode only (for interactive on UNIX try the tee command). none