Controlling Output Items

IBM® SPSS® Statistics procedures produce output items including logs, warnings, notes, output titles, page titles, pivot tables, text output, charts, trees, and models. Which items are produced depends on the procedure. You can control which items appear in the output with the command line switches and the appropriate argument(s) shown in the following table.

Table 1. Switches for controlling output items
Switch	Description
-notes	Produces information about how the output was created. You get the same result with `-show N`.
-show L W N E G P T C R M	Produces the output items that are listed in the arguments included after the switch.
-hide L W N E G P T C R M	Does not produce the output items that are listed in the arguments included after the switch.

Note: If you are using OMS in the syntax, the OMS command overrides these specifications for showing and hiding specific output items. Output requested with the OUTPUT SAVE command, however, honors these switches.

Table 2. Arguments and display defaults for output items
Output Item	Description	Show/hide with argument:	Displayed by default?
Log	A record of the syntax that was executed	L	Yes
Warnings	Warning messages that occurred when the procedure was run	W	Yes
Note	Information about how the output was created	N	No
Output title	Title connected to the output of a procedure	E	No
Page title	Title connected to a page	G	No
Pivot table	Tabular statistical output	P	Yes
Text output	Output not displayed in pivot tables	T	Yes
Charts	Charts (not applicable for text output)	C	Yes
Trees	Tree diagrams (not applicable for text output)	R	Yes
Models	Models (not applicable for text output)	M	Yes

When the output is HTML, charts, tree diagrams, and models are rendered as portable network graphics (PNG) files. If you prefer a different image format, you must use the OMS command in your syntax. OMS allows you to specify other image formats.