Architecture

The Batch Facility is an application that resides in the same location as IBM® SPSS® Statistics Server. It is started from a command prompt at a terminal. It does not have a graphical user interface. It is usually launched with a command syntax file, and it also has a few command line options. (See .)

When the Batch Facility is launched, the following steps occur. The Batch Facility:

1. Parses the command line.
2. Passes the syntax to a controller that passes it to the appropriate computational modules.
3. Opens the data source.
4. Receives output from the computational modules.
5. Formats the output according to command line options.
6. Saves the output, or displays it on the screen.