Subcommands (SHOW command)

The following alphabetical list shows the available subcommands.

ALL
Display important settings that are applicable to your system. This setting is the default.
BASETEXTDIRECTION
The direction for text flow. The setting is AUTOMATIC, RIGHTTOLEFT, or LEFTTORIGHT. The default setting is AUTOMATIC.
BLANKS
Value to which a blank field for a numeric variable is translated. The default is the system-missing value.
BOX
Characters that are used to draw boxes. Both character and hexadecimal representations are displayed. The default is X’2D7C2B2B2B2B2B2B2B2B2B’. This setting applies only to text output from the program.
BLOCK
Character that is used to draw bar charts. Both character and hexadecimal representations are displayed. The default is X’2A’. This setting applies only to the text output from the program.
CC
Custom currency formats. CC shows the current custom currency formats that are defined for CCA, CCB, CCC, CCD, and CCE on SET. In Windows environments, the formats reflect the Regional Settings Properties. You can also request any of these keywords individually.
CACHE
Cache active data file. This setting shows the number of changes in the active data file before a cache file is created. The default is 5.
CMPTRANS
Override IBM® SPSS® Statistics Server setting for compiled transformations. The setting is either ON or OFF (alias YES or NO). There is no default because the default behavior is determined by the IBM SPSS Statistics Server.
CTEMPLATE
Chart template file. The setting is either NONE or a file name.
DECIMAL
Decimal indicator. This setting indicates the current character that is used as the decimal indicator. DOT indicates that a period is the decimal indicator; COMMA indicates that a comma is the decimal indicator.
DEFOLANG
Default output language. This setting indicates the default output language to use if the language that is specified on the OLANG subcommand is not available. The initial default setting is the language version of the installed software.
DIGITGROUPING
Whether the current IBM SPSS Statistics locale’s digit grouping format is applied to numeric output. The setting is YES (alias ON) or NO (alias OFF). The default is NO.
DIRECTORY
Default directory. This setting indicates the root directory that is used to determine the locations of files that are specified with no paths or relative paths. A wide variety of actions can change the current default directory during a session.
ENVIRONMENT
Operating system and computer information. This setting includes information about environment variables, defined paths, and domain.
EPOCH
Range of years for date-format variables and date functions that are entered with a two-digit year value. AUTOMATIC indicates a 100-year range that begins 69 years before the current year and 30 years after the current year.
ERRORS
Error messages for text output. The setting can be LISTING (alias YES or ON) or NONE (alias NO or OFF).
EXTENSIONS
No longer supported.
EXTPATHS
Displays the locations for installing and searching for custom dialogs, extension commands, and R packages. When more than one location exists, location 1 takes precedence over location 2, and so on. The location R_HOME (in R_HOME\library) specifies the directory where R is installed.
FILTER
Filter status. This setting indicates whether filtering is in effect (FILTER command) and indicates the filter variable that is in use (if any).
FORMAT
Default print and write formats for numeric variables that are defined on DATA LIST in free-field format and all numeric variables that are created by transformation commands. The default is F8.2.
FUZZBITS
Default setting of the fuzzbits argument for the RND and TRUNC functions. The default is 6.
HANDLES
Displays a list of all file handles currently in effect. File handles are created with the FILE HANDLE command.
HEADER
Headings for text output. The setting is YES, NO, or BLANK. The default is NO.
JOURNAL
No longer supported.
LEADZERO
Whether leading zeros are displayed for numeric values that consist only of a decimal part. The setting is either YES or NO.
LENGTH
Maximum page length for output. The default is 59. This setting applies only to the text output from the program.
LICENSE
Licensed components, expiration date, release number, and maximum number of users who are allowed by the license.
LOCALE
Operating system locale setting and code page. In Windows operating systems, locale is set in the Regional Options of the Control Panel.
MCACHE
Memory cache size in kilobytes. The default and recommended setting are based on your specific hardware.
MDISPLAY
When defined, the subcommand uses pivot tables to display matrices. When the subcommand is not defined, the default behavior is to display matrices to TEXT.
MESSAGES
Resource-utilization messages for text output. The setting can be LISTING (alias YES or ON) or NONE (alias NO or OFF).
MEXPAND
Macro expansion. The setting is either ON (alias YES) or OFF (alias NO). The default is ON.
MIOUTPUT
Displays the settings for pooled output when a multiply imputed dataset is analyzed.
MITERATE
Maximum loop iterations that are allowed in macro expansions. The default is 1000.
MNEST
Maximum nesting level for macros. The default is 50.
MPRINT
Inclusion of expanded macros in the output. The setting is either ON (alias YES) or OFF (alias NO). The default is OFF.
MXCELLS
No longer supported.
MXERRS
Maximum number of errors that are allowed and number of errors so far in current session. In most implementations of IBM SPSS Statistics, the maximum number of errors that are defined on SET MXERRS is ignored. However, the information that SHOW MXERRS provides about number of errors in the current session can be useful.
MXLOOPS
Maximum executions of a loop on a single case. The default is 40.
MXMEMORY
No longer supported.
MXWARNS
Maximum number of warnings and errors that are shown for text output. The default is 10.
N
Unweighted number of cases in the active dataset. N displays UNKNOWN if there is no active dataset. N cannot be changed with SET.
OATTRS
Whether OXML and SAV output from OMS contains English-only attribute values and English-only variable names respectively. The setting is OLANG, ENG, or BOTH. The default is OLANG.
OLANG
Output language for pivot tables.
ONUMBERS
Display of variable values in the outline for pivot tables. The settings can be LABELS, VALUES, and BOTH.
OVARS
Display of variables as headings. The settings can be LABELS, NAMES, and BOTH.
PLUGINS
Displays which programmability plug-ins are installed. For Python and R, the path to the Python or R home directory is also shown.
PRINTBACK
Command print back. The setting can be BOTH (alias LISTING, YES, or ON) or NONE (alias NO or OFF). The default is BOTH at system installation.
PXTWARNS
Defines the number of trailing lines of warning messages that Python Xtensions write to the output. The command accepts a single integer value greater than or equal to 0 or ALL (write all warning messages). A value of 0 disables Python Xtension warning message output. A value of ALL echoes all Python Xtension warning message output. The default value is 3.
REPDEFER
Whether connection requests to an IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository are deferred until needed. The setting is YES (alias ON) or NO (alias OFF). The default is NO unless you are running command syntax with the IBM SPSS Statistics Batch Facility (available with IBM SPSS Statistics Server), in which case the default is YES.
RESULTS
Output from commands. This setting is not applicable to output that is displayed in pivot tables. The setting can be LISTING (alias YES or ON) or NONE (alias NO or OFF).
RNG
Random number generator. Indicates which random number generator is being used.
SCALEMIN
For data files that were created in versions before version 8.0, the minimum number of unique values for a numeric variable that is used to classify the variable as scale. This setting affects only data files created in versions before version 8.0 that are opened in later versions.
SCOMPRESSION
Compression of IBM SPSS Statistics data files. This setting can be overridden by the COMPRESSED or UNCOMPRESSED subcommands on the SAVE or XSAVE commands. The default setting varies by system. SCOMPRESSION cannot be changed with SET.
SEED
Seed for the random-number generator. The default is generally 2,000,000 but might vary by system.
SMALL
Decimal value to control display of scientific notation in output.
SORT
Sorting mechanism that is in effect: IBM SPSS Statistics or external, third-party (if available).
SPLIT
Split file status.
SYSMIS
The system-missing value. SYSMIS cannot be changed with SET.
TABLERENDER
No longer supported.
TFIT
Adjust column widths in pivot tables. The settings can be BOTH (label and data) and LABELS..
THREADS
Number of threads. The default and recommended setting are based on your specific hardware.
TLOOK
Pivot table template file. The setting can be either NONE or a file name.
TMSRECORDING
TMS recording status. Yes indicates that a TMS block for writing transformations to PMML is in effect. No indicates that TMS is not currently in effect. For more information, see TMS BEGIN.
TNUMBERS
Display of variable values in pivot tables. The settings can be VALUES, LABELS, and BOTH.
TVARS
Display of variables as headings. The settings can be NAMES, LABELS, and BOTH.
UNDEFINED
Warning message for undefined data. YES is the value that is associated with the default setting of SET UNDEFINED=WARN.NO is the value that is associated with SET UNDEFINED=NOWARN, which suppresses messages but does not alter the count of warnings toward the MXWARNS total.
UNICODE
Unicode mode status. The setting is either YES (alias ON) or NO (alias OFF).
VERSION
Version number and creation date.
WEIGHT
Variable that is used to weight cases. WEIGHT can be specified for SHOW only and cannot be changed with SET.
WIDTH
Maximum page width for the output. The default is 132 columns for batch mode and 80 for interactive mode. This setting applies only to text output from the program.
WORKSPACE
Special workspace memory limit in kilobytes. The default is 6148.
XVERSION
Version of Output XML schema that is used to generate OXML output from OMS. The setting is DEFAULT or the version number (if the version differs from the default one). The default is the value DEFAULT.
ZCOMPRESSION
Override Server setting for compression of scratch files. The setting is either ON or OFF (alias YES or NO). There is no default because the default behavior is determined by the IBM SPSS Statistics Server.
$VARS
Values of system variables. $VARS cannot be changed with SET.