Compatibility with previous releases

Legacy tables (referred to as full-featured tables in release 19) are tables that are fully compatible with IBM® SPSS® Statistics releases prior to 20. Legacy tables may render slowly and are only recommended if compatibility with releases prior to 20 is required. You can specify that tables are rendered as legacy tables by calling the SpssClient.SetPreference method with the TableRender option set to "full". See the topic SetPreference Method (Python) for more information. You can also specify legacy table creation with the command syntax SET TABLERENDER = FULL.

• Tables, other than legacy tables, created in IBM SPSS Statistics release 20 or later and lightweight tables in output documents that are modified in release 20 or later (but created in release 19) cannot be viewed or accessed through scripting in releases prior to 19.0.0.2. Such tables are viewable and accessible through scripting in release 19.0.0.2, where they are rendered as lightweight tables; however, they may not render the same as in release 20 or later.
• Lightweight tables created in IBM SPSS Statistics release 19 automatically have full support for pivoting and editing in release 20 or later.