Batch Mode and Existing Batch Jobs

You can schedule your Batch Facility jobs to run the same way you scheduled your IBM® SPSS® Statistics for UNIX jobs. For example, you can use the UNIX at command.

If you have an profile in a text file, .profile.sps, the Batch Facility will execute it. The Batch Facility looks for .profile.sps first in the login directory of the user who is running the Batch Facility and next in the /bin subdirectory of the IBM SPSS Statistics Server installation directory. Most SET subcommands supported in earlier UNIX releases are supported by IBM SPSS Statistics Server.

You might need to edit your batch script and command syntax files as described in the following sections.