Re: Creating Production Jobs on PSPP

[Matthew Silver]

Thanks for the quick response, John. I probably should have mentioned earlier that I want to make it a line in a batch file without actually running the shell. So for comparison, here's the working code I have for SPSS:

 

"C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Statistics\20\stats.exe" %TEMP% -production silent -symbol @datafile %DATA%

 

where %TEMP% is the name of the production job file and %DATA% the data file I'm reading in. Simply swapping the stats.exe with the PSPP equivalent doesn't do the trick. What would I do in this case?

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:14 PM, John Darrington <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:57:07PM -0400, Matthew Silver wrote:
     I'm sorry John, I'm relatively new to this and am not completely sure what
     you mean by "file start pspp." For example, if I wanted to run prodjob.spj
     with PSPP, how would I represent that as a line in batch?

Sorry.  I was typing rather fast and missed much of the punctuation from what
I wrote.

>From a shell, type "pspp prodjob.spj"  - this will run all the commands in the
prodjob.spj file and then terminate.

I hope this makes it clearer.

This is supposed to be covered in chapter 3 of the manual, so if after reading that
it is unclear, please raise a bug report.

J'



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     On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:03 PM, John Darrington <
     address@hidden> wrote:

     > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:16:57AM -0400, Matthew Silver wrote:
     >      Hello,
     >
     >      I am working at a company that has a limited number of single-user
     > licenses
     >      for SPSS. I have a production job that works on SPSS, but I can't
     > seem to
     >      find the equivalent on PSPP. I have a trial version of SPSS myself
     > that
     >      expires in just 2 days, so help on this topic would be greatly
     > appreciated.
     >      Please let me know whether production jobs can be done on PSPP!
     >
     >
     > I hadn't heard of the term "production job" until you mentioned it.  So I
     > searched
     > IBM's web site and found this definition:
     >

     >   "Production jobs provide the ability to run IBM? SPSS? Statistics in an

     >    automated fashion. The program runs unattended and terminates after
     > executing
     >    the last command, so you can perform other tasks while it runs or
     > schedule the
     >    production job to run automatically at scheduled times. "
     >
     >
     > The answer is, yes.  PSPP can do that.  Just put the commands in a file
     > start pspp
     > passing it the name of the file.
     >
     >
     > J'

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