Release History

This section details changes to the command syntax language occurring after release 12.0. Information is organized alphabetically by command and changes for a given command are grouped by release. For commands introduced after 12.0, the introductory release is noted. Additions of new functions (used for instance with COMPUTE) and changes to existing functions are detailed under the heading Functions, located at the end of this section.

ADD FILES

Release 22.0

  • PASSWORD keyword introduced on the FILE subcommand.

ADP

Release 18

  • Command introduced.

AGGREGATE

Release 13.0

  • MODE keyword introduced.
  • OVERWRITE keyword introduced.

Release 17.0

  • AGGREGATE runs without a break variable.

Release 22.0

  • CLT, CGT, CIN, and COUT functions introduced.

ALTER TYPE

Release 16.0

  • Command introduced.

APPLY DICTIONARY

Release 14.0

  • ATTRIBUTES keyword introduced on FILEINFO and VARINFO subcommands.

Release 18

  • ROLE keyword introduced on VARINFO subcommands.

Release 22.0

  • PASSWORD keyword introduced on the FROM subcommand.

AUTORECODE

Release 13.0

  • BLANK subcommand introduced.
  • GROUP subcommand introduced.
  • APPLY TEMPLATE and SAVE TEMPLATE subcommands introduced.

BEGIN EXPR - END EXPR

Release 21.0

  • Command block introduced as SIMPREP BEGIN-SIMPREP END.

Release 23.0

  • SIMPREP BEGIN-SIMPREP END deprecated. Command block renamed to BEGIN EXPR-END EXPR.

BEGIN GPL

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

BEGIN PROGRAM

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

BOOTSTRAP

Release 18

  • Command introduced.

CASEPLOT

Release 14.0

  • For plots with one variable, new option to specify a value with the REFERENCE keyword on the FORMAT subcommand.

CATPCA

Release 13.0

  • NDIM keyword introduced on PLOT subcommand.
  • The maximum label length on the PLOT subcommand is increased to 64 for variable names, 255 for variable labels, and 60 for value labels (previous value was 20).

Release 23.0

  • RANDIMPU keyword introduced on MISSING subcommand.
  • ROTATION subcommand introduced.
  • RESAMPLE subcommand introduced.
  • SORT and NOSORT keywords introduced for LOADING on the PRINT subcommand.
  • VAF, OBELLAREA, LDELLAREA, CTELLAREA, NELLPNT, and keywords introduced on PLOT subcommand.
  • OBELLAREA, LDELLAREA, and CTELLAREA keywords introduced on SAVE subcommand.
  • ELLCOORD keyword introduced on OUTFILE subcommand.

CATREG

Release 13.0

  • The maximum category label length on the PLOT subcommand is increased to 60 (previous value was 20).

Release 17.0

  • MULTISTART and FIXSIGNS keywords added to INITIAL subcommand.
  • REGULARIZATION subcommand added.
  • RESAMPLE subcommand added.
  • REGU keyword added to PRINT subcommand.
  • REGU keyword added to PLOT subcommand.
  • SUPPLEMENTARY categories not occuring in data used to create the model are now interpolated.

CD

Release 13.0

  • Command introduced.

CODEBOOK

Release 17.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 18

  • ROLE keyword added to VARINFO subcommand.

COMPARE DATASETS

Release 21

  • Command introduced.

Release 22.0

  • PASSWORD keyword introduced on the COMPDATASET subcommand.
  • MATCHPASS, MISMATCHPASS, and ENCRYPTEDPW keywords introduced on the SAVE subcommand.

CORRESPONDENCE

Release 13.0

  • For the NDIM keyword on the PLOT subcommand, the default is changed to all dimensions.
  • The maximum label length on the PLOT subcommand is increased to 60 (previous value was 20).

CROSSTABS

Release 19.0

  • HIDESMALLCOUNTS subcommand introduced.
  • SHOWDIM subcommand introduced.
  • PROP and BPROP keywords introduced on the CELLS subcommand.

CSGLM

Release 13.0

  • Command introduced.

CSLOGISTIC

Release 13.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 17.0

  • Added support for SET THREADS.

CSORDINAL

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 17.0

  • Added support for SET THREADS.

CTABLES

Release 13.0

  • HSUBTOTAL keyword introduced on the CATEGORIES subcommand.

Release 14.0

  • INCLUDEMRSETS keyword introduced on the SIGTEST and COMPARETEST subcommands.
  • CATEGORIES keyword introduced on the SIGTEST and COMPARETEST subcommands.
  • MEANSVARIANCE keyword introduced on the COMPARETEST subcommand.

Release 18.0

  • MERGE keyword introduced on the COMPARETEST subcommand.
  • PCOMPUTE and PPROPERTIES subcommands introduced.

Release 19.0

  • HIDESMALLCOUNTS subcommand introduced.

Release 24.0

  • SHOWSIG keyword added to COMPARETEST subcommand.
  • CRITERIA subcommand introduced.
  • ADJUST=BH added to COMPARETEST subcommand for Benjamini-Hochberg correction.
  • STYLE keyword added to COMPARETEST subcommand.
  • Confidence intervals added for counts, percents, mean, median, and sum statistics.
  • WEIGHT subcommand introduced.

CURVEFIT

Release 19.0

  • TEMPLATE subcommand introduced.

DATA LIST

Release 16.0

  • ENCODING subcommand added for Unicode support.

DATAFILE ATTRIBUTE

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

DATASET ACTIVATE

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

DATASET CLOSE

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 29.0.1

  • Added support for multiple datasets.

DATASET COPY

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

DATASET DECLARE

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

DATASET DISPLAY

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

DATASET NAME

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

DEFINE-!ENDDEFINE

Release 14.0

  • For syntax processed in interactive mode, modifications to the macro facility may affect macro calls occurring at the end of a command.

DETECTANOMALY

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

DISPLAY

Release 14.0

  • ATTRIBUTES keyword introduced.

Release 15.0

  • @ATTRIBUTES keyword introduced.

DO REPEAT-END REPEAT

Release 14.0

  • ALL keyword introduced.

EXTENSION

Release 16.0

  • Command introduced.

FILE HANDLE

Release 13.0

  • The NAME subcommand is modified to accept a path and/or file.

Release 16.0

  • ENCODING subcommand added for Unicode support.

FILE TYPE

Release 16.0

  • ENCODING subcommand added for Unicode support.

GENLIN

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 16.0

  • Added multinomial and tweedie distributions; added MLE estimation option for ancillary parameter of negative binomial distribution (MODEL subcommand, DISTRIBUTION keyword). Notes related to the addition of the new distributions added throughout.
  • Added cumulative Cauchit, cumulative complementary log-log, cumulative logit, cumulative negative log-log, and cumulative probit link functions (MODEL subcommand, LINK keyword).
  • Added likelihood-ratio chi-square statistics as an alternative to Wald statistics (CRITERIA subcommand, ANALYSISTYPE keyword).
  • Added profile likelihood confidence intervals as an alternative to Wald confidence intervals (CRITERIA subcommand, CITYPE keyword).
  • Added option to specify initial value for ancillary parameter of negative binomial distribution (CRITERIA subcommand, INITIAL keyword).
  • Changed default display of the likelihood function for GEEs to show the full value instead of the kernel (CRITERIA subcommand, LIKELIHOOD keyword).

GENLINMIXED

Release 19

  • Command introduced.

Release 20

  • Ordinal targets can be analyzed using the Multinomial distribution and the complementary log-log, cauchit, logit, negative log-log, or probit link functions.

GET CAPTURE

Release 15.0

  • UNENCRYPTED subcommand introduced.

GET DATA

Release 13.0

  • ASSUMEDSTRWIDTH subcommand introduced for TYPE=ODBC.

Release 14.0

  • ASSUMEDSTRWIDTH subcommand extended to TYPE=XLS.
  • TYPE=OLEDB introduced.

Release 15.0

  • ASSUMEDSTRWIDTH subcommand extended to TYPE=OLEDB.

Release 16.0

  • TYPE=XLSX and TYPE=XLSM introduced.

Release 17.0

  • ENCRYPTED subcommand introduced.

Release 21.0

  • ENCODING subcommand introduced.

Release 23.0

  • UTF16, UTF16BE, and UTF16LE keywords added to ENCODING subcommand.

Release 24.0

  • AUTO keyword introduced.
  • DATATYPEMIN subcommand introduced.
  • HIDDEN subcommand introduced.
  • LEADINGSPACES subcommand introduced.
  • MAP subcommand introduced.
  • MULTIPLESPACES subcommand introduced.
  • TRAILINGSPACES subcommand introduced.

GET SAS

Release 19

  • ENCODING subcommand introduced.

GET STATA

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 19

  • ENCODING subcommand introduced.

GETCOGNOS

Release 21.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 23.0

  • CREDENTIAL keyword introduced on CONNECTION subcommand.
  • Value STOREDCREDENTIAL added to MODE keyword on CONNECTION subcommand.

GETTM1

Release 22.0.0.1

  • Command introduced.

Release 23.0

  • MODE and CREDENTIAL keywords introduced on CONNECTION subcommand.

GGRAPH

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 15.0

  • RENAME syntax qualifier deprecated.
  • COUNTCI, MEDIANCI, MEANCI, MEANSD, and MEANSE functions introduced.

Release 17.0

  • Added SOURCE=VIZTEMPLATE to support visualization templates.
  • Added VIZSTYLESHEET keyword to support visualization stylesheets.

Release 19.0

  • Added LOCATION=FILE to support visualization templates stored in an arbitrary location on the file system.

Release 20.0

  • Added VIZMAP keyword to support map visualizations.

GLM

Release 29.0.1

  • OUTFILE subcommand entry added.

Release 25.0

  • TYPE, ERRORBAR, MEANREFERENCE, and YAXIS keywords added to PLOT subcommand.
  • ROBUST subcommand added.
  • HCCOVB keyword added to OUTFILE subcommand. Any combination of COVB, CORB, and HCCOVB keywords can now be specified on OUTFILE.
  • MBP, BP, F, and WHITE keywords added to PRINT subcommand.
  • MBPDESIGN, BPDESIGN, and FDESIGN subcommands added.

Release 17.0

  • POSTHOC subcommand: T2, T3, GH, and C keywords are not valid when multiple factors in the model.
  • PLOT subcommand: new WITH keyword allows you to fix covariate values for profile plots.

GRAPH

Release 13.0

  • PANEL subcommand introduced.
  • INTERVAL subcommand introduced.

HOST

Release 13.0

  • Command introduced.

INCLUDE

Release 16.0

  • ENCODING keyword added for Unicode support.

Release 22.0

  • PASSWORD keyword introduced on the FILE subcommand.

INSERT

Release 13.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 16.0

  • ENCODING keyword added for Unicode support.

Release 22.0

  • PASSWORD keyword introduced.

KEYED DATA LIST

Release 16.0

  • ENCODING subcommand added for Unicode support.

KNN

Release 17.0

  • Command introduced.

LINEAR

Release 19

  • Command introduced.

LOGISTIC REGRESSION

Release 13.0

  • OUTFILE subcommand introduced.

Release 14.0

  • Modification to the method of recoding string variables.

MATCH FILES

Release 22.0

  • PASSWORD keyword introduced on the FILE and TABLE subcommands.

MISSING VALUES

Release 16.0

  • Limitation preventing assignment of missing values to strings with a defined width greater than eight bytes removed.

MLP

Release 16.0

  • Command introduced.

MODEL CLOSE

Release 13.0

  • Command introduced.

MODEL HANDLE

Release 13.0

  • Command introduced.

MODEL LIST

Release 13.0

  • Command introduced.

MRSETS

Release 14.0

  • LABELSOURCE keyword introduced on MDGROUP subcommand.
  • CATEGORYLABELS keyword introduced on MDGROUP subcommand.

MULTIPLE CORRESPONDENCE

Release 13.0

  • Command introduced.

MULTIPLE IMPUTATION

Release 17.0

  • Command introduced.

NAIVEBAYES

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

NOMREG

Release 13.0

  • ENTRYMETHOD keyword introduced on STEPWISE subcommand.
  • REMOVALMETHOD keyword introduced on STEPWISE subcommand.
  • IC keyword introduced on PRINT subcommand.

Release 15.0

  • ASSOCIATION keyword introduced on PRINT subcommand.

Release 17.0

  • Added support for SET THREADS and SET MCACHE.

NONPARAMETRIC

Release 18

  • Command introduced.

NPAR TESTS

Release 17.0

  • Increased limits on number of variables allowed in the analysis.

OLAP CUBES

Release 19.0

  • HIDESMALLCOUNTS subcommand introduced.

OMS

Release 13.0

  • TREES keyword introduced on SELECT subcommand.
  • IMAGES, IMAGEROOT, CHARTSIZE, and IMAGEFORMAT keywords introduced on DESTINATION subcommand.

Release 14.0

  • XMLWORKSPACE keyword introduced on DESTINATION subcommand.

Release 16.0

  • IMAGEFORMAT=VML introduced for FORMAT=HTML on DESTINATION subcommand.
  • IMAGEMAP keyword introduced for FORMAT=HTML on DESTINATION subcommand.
  • FORMAT=SPV introduced for saving output in Viewer format.
  • CHARTFORMAT keyword introduced.
  • TREEFORMAT keyword introduced.
  • TABLES keyword introduced.
  • FORMAT=SVWSOXML is no longer supported.

Release 17.0

  • MODELS keyword introduced on SELECT subcommand.
  • FORMAT=DOC, XLS, PDF, and SPW introduced.
  • MODELFORMAT keyword introduced.

Release 19.0

  • IMAGEFORMAT=VML introduced for FORMAT=OXML on DESTINATION subcommand.
  • For version 19.0.0.1 and higher, the IMAGEMAP keyword will no longer generate image map tooltips for major tick labels.

Release 21.0

  • FORMAT=XLSX added to DESTINATION subcommand.

Release 22.0

  • FORMAT=REPORTHTML and FORMAT=REPORTMHT added to DESTINATION subcommand.
  • REPORTTITLE keyword added to DESTINATION subcommand.

Release 27.0

  • FORMAT=REPORTHTML and FORMAT=REPORTMHT deprecated from the DESTINATION subcommand.
  • REPORTTITLE keyword deprecated from the DESTINATION subcommand.

Release 28.0.1

  • The DESTINATION subcommand's FORMAT=DOC option export's to Microsoft Word *.docx format (it previously exported to Microsoft Word *.doc format).

ONEWAY

Release 19.0

  • TEMPLATE subcommand introduced.

OPTIMAL BINNING

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

OUTPUT ACTIVATE

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

OUTPUT CLOSE

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 29.0.1

  • Added support for multiple output documents.

OUTPUT DISPLAY

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

OUTPUT EXPORT

Release 17.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 21.0

  • Subcommands XLSX and XLSM added.
  • STYLING keyword added to HTML subcommand.
  • BREAKPOINTS keyword added to DOC subcommand.

Release 22.0.

  • Subcommand REPORT added.
  • INTERACTIVELAYERS keyword added to HTML subcommand

Release 27.0

  • The REPORT subcommand was deprecated. The REPORT subcommand syntax has been mapped to the HTML subcommand.

OUTPUT NAME

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

OUTPUT MODIFY

Release 22.0

  • Command introduced.

OUTPUT NEW

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 16.0

  • TYPE keyword is obsolete and is ignored.

OUTPUT OPEN

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 17.0

  • LOCK keyword introduced.

Release 21.0

  • PASSWORD keyword introduced.

OUTPUT SAVE

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 16.0

  • TYPE keyword introduced.

Release 17.0

  • LOCK keyword introduced.

Release 21.0

  • PASSPROTECT subcommand introduced.

PER ATTRIBUTES

Release 16.0

  • Command introduced as PER ATTRIBUTES.

Release 17.0

  • VERSIONLABEL keyword extended to support multiple labels.

Release 18.0

  • PER ATTRIBUTES deprecated. Command name changed to REPOSITORY ATTRIBUTES.

PER CONNECT

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced as PER CONNECT.

Release 17.0

  • DOMAIN keyword deprecated on the LOGIN subcommand.
  • PROVIDER keyword introduced on the LOGIN subcommand.

Release 18.0

  • PER CONNECT deprecated. Command name changed to REPOSITORY CONNECT.

PER COPY

Release 16.0

  • Command introduced as PER COPY.

Release 18.0

  • PER COPY deprecated. Command name changed to REPOSITORY COPY.

PLANCARDS

Release 14.0

  • PAGINATE subcommand is obsolete and no longer supported.

PLS

Release 16.0

  • Command introduced.

POINT

Release 16.0

  • ENCODING subcommand added for Unicode support.

PPLOT

Release 19.0

  • TEMPLATE subcommand introduced.

PREFSCAL

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

PRINT

Release 16.0

  • ENCODING subcommand added for Unicode support.

PRINT EJECT

Release 16.0

  • ENCODING subcommand added for Unicode support.

PRINT SPACE

Release 16.0

  • ENCODING subcommand added for Unicode support.

RBF

Release 16.0

  • Command introduced.

REGRESSION

Release 13.0

  • PARAMETER keyword introduced on OUTFILE subcommand.

Release 16.0

  • Added support for SET THREADS and SET MCACHE.

Release 17.0

  • Added option to specify confidence level on CI keyword of STATISTICS subcommand.

Release 19.0

  • TEMPLATE subcommand introduced.

RELIABILITY

Release 17.0

  • Increased limits on numbers of variables allowed on the VARIABLES and SCALE lists.

REPEATING DATA

Release 16.0

  • ENCODING subcommand added for Unicode support.

REPOSITORY ATTRIBUTES

Release 16.0

  • Command introduced as PER ATTRIBUTES.

Release 17.0

  • VERSIONLABEL keyword extended to support multiple labels.

Release 18.0

  • PER ATTRIBUTES deprecated. Command name changed to REPOSITORY ATTRIBUTES.

REPOSITORY CONNECT

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced as PER CONNECT.

Release 17.0

  • DOMAIN keyword deprecated on the LOGIN subcommand.
  • PROVIDER keyword introduced on the LOGIN subcommand.

Release 18.0

  • PER CONNECT deprecated. Command name changed to REPOSITORY CONNECT.

REPOSITORY COPY

Release 16.0

  • Command introduced as PER COPY.

Release 18.0

  • PER COPY deprecated. Command name changed to REPOSITORY COPY.

RESPONSE RATE

Release 18.0

  • Command introduced.

ROC

Release 18.0

  • MODELQUALITY keyword introduced.

SAVE

Release 21.0

  • ZCOMPRESSED subcommand added.
  • PASSPROTECT subcommand added.

SAVE CODEPAGE

Release 23.0

  • Command introduced.

SAVE DATA COLLECTION

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced as SAVE DIMENSIONS.

Release 18.0

  • SAVE DIMENSIONS deprecated. Command name changed to SAVE DATA COLLECTION.

SAVE TRANSLATE

Release 14.0

  • Value STATA added to list for TYPE subcommand.
  • EDITION subcommand introduced for TYPE=STATA.
  • SQL subcommand introduced.
  • MISSING subcommand introduced.
  • Field/column names specified on the RENAME subcommand can contain characters (for example, spaces, commas, slashes, plus signs) that are not allowed in IBM® SPSS® Statistics variable names.
  • Continuation lines for connection strings on the CONNECT subcommand do not need to begin with a plus sign.

Release 15.0

  • ENCRYPTED subcommand introduced.
  • Value CSV added to list for TYPE subcommand.
  • TEXTOPTIONS subcommand introduced for TYPE=CSV and TYPE=TAB.

Release 16.0

  • VERSION=12 introduced for writing data in Excel 2007 XLSX format with TYPE=XLS.

Release 17.0

  • UNENCRYPTED subcommand introduced.

Release 18.0

  • VERSION=9 introduced for writing SAS 9+ files with TYPE=SAS.

Release 19

  • ENCODING subcommand introduced.

Release 22.0

  • BOM keyword added to ENCODING subcommand.

Release 23.0

  • Support for versions 9-13 of Stata added to VERSION subcommand.
  • BULKLOADING subcommand added.

Release 24.0

  • VALUE keyword added to FIELDNAMES subcommand.
  • ODBCOPTIONS subcommand added.
  • EXCELOPTIONS subcommand added.

Release 25.0

  • Support for version 14 of Stata added to VERSION subcommand. Stata 14 supports Unicode data.

SAVETM1

Release 22.0.0.1

  • Command introduced.

SCRIPT

Release 16.0

  • Scripts run from the SCRIPT command now run synchronously with the command syntax stream.

Release 17.0

  • Ability to run Python scripts introduced.

SELECTPRED

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

SET

Release 13.0

  • RNG and MTINDEX subcommands introduced.
  • Default for MXERRS subcommand increased to 100.
  • SORT subcommand introduced.
  • LOCALE subcommand introduced.

Release 14.0

  • Default for WORKSPACE subcommand increased to 6144.

Release 15.0

  • LABELS replaces VALUES as the default for the TNUMBERS subcommand.
  • JOURNAL subcommand is obsolete and no longer supported.
  • Value EXTERNAL added to list for SORT subcommand, replacing the value INTERNAL as the default. Value SS is deprecated.

Release 16.0

  • MCACHE subcommand introduced.
  • THREADS subcommand introduced.
  • UNICODE subcommand introduced.

Release 16.0.1

  • BOTHLARGE keyword introduced for the TFIT subcommand.

Release 17.0

  • FUZZBITS subcommand introduced.
  • MIOUTPUT subcommand introduced.

Release 18.0

  • ROWSBREAK, CELLSBREAK, and TOLERANCE subcommands introduced for controlling display of large pivot tables.
  • ZCOMPRESSION subcommand introduced.
  • COMPRESSION subcommand is obsolete and ignored.
  • REPDEFER subcommand introduced.

Release 19.0

  • XVERSION subcommand introduced.
  • OATTRS subcommand introduced.
  • DIGITGROUPING subcommand introduced.
  • TABLERENDER subcommand introduced.
  • CMPTRANS subcommand introduced.

Release 20.0

  • FAST keyword introduced for the TABLERENDER subcommand, replacing the LIGHT keyword, which is deprecated.
  • Value BPortugu (Brazilian Portuguese) added to list for OLANG subcommand.

Release 21.0

  • ODISPLAY subcommand introduced.

Release 22.0

  • OSLOCALE keyword added to LOCALE subcommand.
  • BASETEXTDIRECTION subcommand added.
  • SUMMARY subcommand added.

Release 24.0

  • LEADZERO subcommand added.

Release Subscription (November 2017 update)

  • MDISPLAY subcommand added.

Release 27.0.1

  • FOOTNOTE and SIGLESS subcommands added.

Release 28.0

  • CELLSBREAK, ROWSBREAK, TOLERANCE, MXCELLS, and TABLERENDER subcommands no longer supported.

Release 29.0

  • PXTWARNS subcommand added.
  • ODISPLAY subcommand removed.

SHIFT VALUES

Release 17.0

  • Command introduced.

SHOW

Release 13.0

  • BLKSIZE and BUFNO subcommands are obsolete and no longer supported.
  • HANDLES subcommand introduced.
  • SORT subcommand introduced.

Release 15.0

  • TMSRECORDING subcommand introduced.

Release 16.0

  • UNICODE subcommand introduced.
  • MCACHE subcommand introduced.
  • THREADS subcommand introduced.

Release 17.0

  • FUZZBITS subcommand introduced.

Release 18.0

  • EXTPATHS subcommand introduced.
  • ZCOMPRESSION subcommand introduced.
  • COMPRESSION subcommand removed because it is obsolete.
  • REPDEFER subcommand introduced.

Release 19.0

  • TABLERENDER subcommand introduced.
  • XVERSION subcommand introduced.
  • OATTRS subcommand introduced.
  • DIGITGROUPING subcommand introduced.
  • CMPTRANS subcommand introduced.

Release 21.0

  • ODISPLAY subcommand introduced.

Release 22.0

  • PLUGINS subcommand introduced.

Release 24.0

  • LEADZERO subcommand introduced.

Release Subscription (November 2017 update)

  • MDISPLAY subcommand introduced.

Release 28.0

  • MXCELLS and TABLERENDER subcommands no longer supported.

Release 29.0

  • PXTWARNS subcommand introduced.
  • ODISPLAY subcommand removed.

SIMPLAN

Release 21.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 22.0

  • LOCK keyword introduced on FIXEDINPUT subcommand.
  • CONTINGENCY subcommand added.
  • CONTINGENCY keyword added to specifications for CATEGORICAL distribution on SIMINPUT subcommand.
  • Added global SOURCE keyword and deprecated SOURCE keyword for DISTRIBUTION=EMPIRICAL.
  • MISSING subcommand added.
  • VALUELABELS subcommand added.

SIMPREP BEGIN-SIMPREP END

Release 21.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 23.0

  • Command block deprecated for release 23.0 and higher. Name of command block changed to BEGIN EXPR-END EXPR.

SIMRUN

Release 21.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 22.0

  • Added support for saving the simulated data to the active dataset by specifying an asterisk (*) on the FILE keyword of the OUTFILE subcommand.
  • REFLINES keyword added to DISTRIBUTION subcommand.
  • ASSOCIATIONS keyword added to PRINT subcommand.
  • OPTIONS subcommand added.

SORT VARIABLES

Release 16.0.

  • Command introduced.

Release 18.0.

  • ROLE keyword introduced.

SPATIAL ASSOCIATION RULES

Release 23.0

  • Command introduced.

SPATIAL MAPSPEC

Release 23.0

  • Command introduced.

SPATIAL TEMPORAL PREDICTION

Release 23.0

  • Command introduced.

SPCHART

Release 15.0

  • (XBARONLY) keyword introduced on XR and XS subcommands.
  • RULES subcommand introduced.
  • ID subcommand introduced.

Release 19.0

  • CPCHART subcommand introduced.
  • NORMAL subcommand introduced.
  • REFERENCE subcommand introduced.
  • Following keywords introduced on STATISTICS subcommand: N, MEAN, STDDEV, CAPSIGMA, LSL, USL, TARGET, AZLOUT, AZUOUT, CZLOUT, CZUOUT, PZLOUT, PZUOUT.

STAR JOIN

Release 21.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 22.0

  • PASSWORD keyword introduced on the FROM and JOIN subcommands.

SYSFILE INFO

Release 22.0

  • PASSWORD keyword introduced.

TCM ANALYSIS

Release 23.0

  • Command introduced.

TCM APPLY

Release 23.0

  • Command introduced.

TCM MODEL

Release 23.0

  • Command introduced.

TMS BEGIN

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 16.0

  • Added support for new string functions CHAR.CONCAT, CHAR.LENGTH, and CHAR.SUBSTR within TMS blocks.

Release 21.0

  • Added support for comparison operators and logical operators.

TMS END

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

TMS IMPORT

Release 18

  • Command introduced.

TMS MERGE

Release 15.0

  • Command introduced.

TREE

Release 13.0

  • Command introduced.

Release 18.0

  • TARGETRESPONSE subcommand introduced.

TSAPPLY

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

TSMODEL

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

TSPLOT

Release 14.0

  • For plots with one variable, REFERENCE keyword modified to allow specification of a value.

UNIANOVA

Release 17.0

  • POSTHOC subcommand: T2, T3, GH, and C keywords are not valid when multiple factors in the model.

Release 25.0

  • TYPE, ERRORBAR, MEANREFERENCE, and YAXIS keywords added to PLOT subcommand.
  • ROBUST subcommand added.
  • HCCOVB keyword added to OUTFILE subcommand. Any combination of COVB, CORB, and HCCOVB keywords can now be specified on OUTFILE.
  • MBP, BP, F, and WHITE keywords added to PRINT subcommand.
  • MBPDESIGN, BPDESIGN, and FDESIGN subcommands added.

UPDATE

Release 22.0

  • PASSWORD keyword introduced on the FILE subcommand.

VALIDATEDATA

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

VALUE LABELS

Release 14.0

  • The maximum length of a value label is extended to 120 bytes (previous limit was 60 bytes).

Release 16.0

  • Limitation preventing assignment of missing values to strings with a defined width greater than eight bytes removed.

VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE

Release 14.0

  • Command introduced.

VARIABLE ROLE

Release 18.0

  • Command introduced.

WRITE

Release 16.0

  • ENCODING subcommand added for Unicode support.

Release 22.0

  • BOM keyword added.

XGRAPH

Release 13.0

  • Command introduced.

XSAVE

Release 21.0

  • ZCOMPRESSED subcommand added.

Functions

Release 13.0

  • APPLYMODEL and STRAPPLYMODEL functions introduced.
  • DATEDIFF and DATESUM functions introduced.

Release 14.0

  • REPLACE function introduced.
  • VALUELABEL function introduced.

Release 16.0

  • CHAR.INDEX function introduced.
  • CHAR.LENGTH function introduced.
  • CHAR.LPAD function introduced.
  • CHAR.MBLEN function introduced.
  • CHAR.RINDEX function introduced.
  • CHAR.RPAD function introduced.
  • CHAR.SUBSTR function introduced.
  • NORMALIZE function introduced.
  • NTRIM function introduced.
  • STRUNC function introduced.

Release 17.0

  • MEDIAN function introduced.
  • mult and fuzzbits arguments introduced for the RND and TRUNC functions.
  • NEIGHBOR and DISTANCE functions added to APPLYMODEL and STRAPPLYMODEL.