SET

Note: Square brackets used in the SET syntax chart are required parts of the syntax and are not used to indicate optional elements. All subcommands are optional.

SET

  BASETEXTDIRECTION={AUTOMATIC**}
                    {RIGHTTOLEFT}
                    {LEFTTORIGHT}

  BLANKS={SYSMIS**}
         {value   }

  BLOCK={X'2A'**    }
        {X'hexchar' }
        {'character'}

  BOX={X'2D7C2B2B2B2B2B2B2B2B2B'**}
      {X'hexstring'               }
      {'character'                }

  CACHE={20**}
        {n   }

  CCA={'-,,,'  } CCB={'-,,,'  } CCC={'-,,,'  }
      {'format'}     {'format’}     {'format'}
 
  CCD={'-,,,'  } CCE={'-,,,'  }
      {'format’}     {'format'}  

  CELLSBREAK={10000**}
             {n      }

  CMPTRANS={YES}
           {NO }

  CTEMPLATE {NONE**              }
            {'full path and name'}

  DECIMAL={COMMA}
          {DOT  }

  DEFOLANG=default output language

  DIGITGROUPING={NO**}
                {YES }

  EPOCH={AUTOMATIC }
        {begin year

  ERRORS={LISTING**}
         {NONE     }

  FORMAT={F8.2**} 
         {Fw.d  }

  FUZZBITS={6**}
           {n  }

  HEADER={NO** }
        {YES  }
        {BLANK}

  LEADZERO={NO**}
           {YES }

  LENGTH={59**} WIDTH={80**}
         {n   }       {255 }
         {NONE}       {n   }

  LOCALE={OSLOCALE**}
         {'localeid'}

  MCACHE=n

  MESSAGES={NONE** }
           {LISTING}

  MEXPAND={ON**}
          {OFF }

  MIOUTPUT = [OBSERVED** IMPUTED** POOLED** DIAGNOSTICS**]

  MITERATE={1000**}
           {n     }

  MNEST={50**}
        {n   }

  MPRINT={OFF**}
         {ON   }

  MTINDEX={2000000**}
          {RANDOM   }
          {n        } 

  MXCELLS={AUTOMATIC**}
          {n          }

  MXERRS={100**}
         {n    }

  MXLOOPS={40**}
          {n   }

  MXWARNS={10**}
          {n   }

  OATTRS={OLANG**}
         {ENG    }
         {BOTH   }

  ODISPLAY={MODELVIEWER**}
           {TABLES**   }

  OLANG=output language

  ONUMBERS={LABELS**}
           {VALUES  }
           {BOTH    }

  OVARS={LABELS**}
        {NAMES   }  SEED={2000000**}
        {BOTH    }       {RANDOM   }
       {n        }

  PRINTBACK={NONE** }
            {LISTING}

  REPDEFER={NO }
           {YES}

  RESULTS={LISTING**}
          {NONE     }

  ROWSBREAK={100**}
            {n    }
            {NONE }

  SCALEMIN=n

  SMALL=n

  SORT={EXTERNAL**}
       {INTERNAL  }
       {SS        }

  SUMMARY={NONE**      }
          {'expression'}

  TABLERENDER={FAST**}
              {FULL  }
              {LIGHT }

  TFIT={BOTH**   }  TVARS={LABELS**}
       {LABELS   }        {NAMES   }
       {BOTHLARGE}        {BOTH    }

  THREADS={AUTO**}
          {n     }

  TLOOK={NONE**              }
        {'full path and name'} 

  TNUMBERS={LABELS**}
           {VALUES  }  RNG={MC**}
           {BOTH    }      {MT  }

  TOLERANCE={1**}
            {n }

  UNDEFINED={WARN**}
            {NOWARN}

  UNICODE={ON**}
          {OFF }

  WORKSPACE={24576**}
            {n      }

  XVERSION={DEFAULT**}
           {'version'}

  ZCOMPRESSION={YES}
               {NO }

** Default setting at installation.

This command takes effect immediately. It does not read the active dataset or execute pending transformations. See the topic Command Order for more information.

Release History

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.

Many of the settings available with the SET command can also be specified from the Options dialog.