Using File Handles for IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository Locations

You can define a file handle to a file or a directory in a IBM® SPSS® Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository and use that file handle when storing or retrieving.

*Define and use a file handle for a directory.
FILE HANDLE cust /NAME='SPSSCR://CustomerValue'.
GET FILE='cust/data2002.sav'.

• The handle cust is associated with the IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository directory /CustomerValue, and the GET command retrieves the latest version of the file data2002.sav from this directory in the current IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository.

  *Define and use a file handle for a specific file.
  FILE HANDLE cust /NAME='SPSSCR://CustomerValue/data2002.sav'.
  GET FILE='cust'.

• The handle cust is associated with the IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository file /CustomerValue/data2002.sav, and the GET command retrieves the latest version of this file from the current IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository.