DATASET ACTIVATE

The DATASET commands (DATASET NAME, DATASET ACTIVATE, DATASET DECLARE, DATASET COPY, DATASET CLOSE) provide the ability to have multiple data sources open at the same time and control which open data source is active at any point in the session.

DATASET ACTIVATE name
        [WINDOW={ASIS }]
                {FRONT}

Release History

Release 14.0

• Command introduced.

Example

GET FILE='/data/mydata.sav'.
DATASET NAME file1.
COMPUTE AvgIncome=income/famsize.
GET DATA /TYPE=XLS
  /FILE='/data/exceldata.xls'.
COMPUTE TotIncome=SUM(income1, income2, income3).
DATASET NAME file2.
DATASET ACTIVATE file1.