Once an OMS command
is executed, it remains in effect until the end of the session or
until ended by an OMSEND command.
A destination file specified on an OMS command is unavailable to other commands
and other applications until the OMS command is ended by an OMSEND command or the end of the session.
While an OMS command is in effect, the specified destination files are stored
in memory (RAM), so active OMS commands that write a large amount of output to external files may
consume a large amount of memory.
Multiple OMS commands are independent of each other (except as noted below).
The same output can be routed to different locations in different
formats based on the specifications in different OMS commands.
Display of output objects in the Viewer is determined
by the most recent OMS command
that includes the particular output type. For example, if an OMS command includes all tables from the FREQUENCIES command and also contains a VIEWER = YES specification, and a subsequent OMS command includes all tables of the
subtype 'Statistics' with VIEWER = NO, Statistics tables for subsequent FREQUENCIES commands will not be displayed
in the Viewer.
The COLUMNS subcommand
has no effect on pivot tables displayed in the Viewer.
The order of the output objects in any particular
destination is the order in which they were created, which is determined
by the order and operation of the commands that generate the output.