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.