Over night production

[ChetMeinzer]

What is the best method for running automatic process overnight on Windows (don't have SPSS server edition yet)?  I want

Currently
1. saving syntax in an 'insert file... error=stop'.
2. creating SPJ in production
3. running syntax in '.bat' as
   "C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Statistics\21\stats.exe" -production "K:\path.spj"
4. task scheduler in windows.  

This works, but is there a good python solution or something with less steps?  

[Jon K Peck]

You will need the Windows job scheduler regardless of what else you change (other than switching to *nix:-))  There is a Python scheduler module if you wanted to program the scheduling logic, but that is more for building a scheduling application.

You could put your syntax in a Python job and run it in external mode without creating a production job, e.g.,

myjob.py:
import spss
spss.Submit(r"""all the syntax
""")

Job to schedule
python myjob.py

External mode jobs can sometimes run significantly faster, because they don't have the UI to maintain.

You probably would want to wrap the syntax in OMS to save the output as an spv file or other format.

The syntax in the Submit could just be an INSERT command if you want to keep it separate.


Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
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What is the best method for running automatic process overnight on Windows
(don't have SPSS server edition yet)?  I want

Currently
1. saving syntax in an 'insert file... error=stop'.
2. creating SPJ in production
3. running syntax in '.bat' as
  "C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Statistics\21\stats.exe" -production
"K:\path.spj"
4. task scheduler in windows.

This works, but is there a good python solution or something with less
steps?





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[Rick Oliver-3]

No need to wrap it in OMS. You can use OUTPUT SAVE or OUTPUT EXPORT in the syntax job to route output to SPV and other formats.

Rick Oliver
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IBM Business Analytics (SPSS)
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From:        Jon K Peck/Chicago/IBM@IBMUS
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Date:        06/13/2013 04:17 PM
Subject:        Re: Over night production
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You will need the Windows job scheduler regardless of what else you change (other than switching to *nix:-))  There is a Python scheduler module if you wanted to program the scheduling logic, but that is more for building a scheduling application.

You could put your syntax in a Python job and run it in external mode without creating a production job, e.g.,

myjob.py:
import spss
spss.Submit(r"""all the syntax
""")

Job to schedule
python myjob.py

External mode jobs can sometimes run significantly faster, because they don't have the UI to maintain.

You probably would want to wrap the syntax in OMS to save the output as an spv file or other format.

The syntax in the Submit could just be an INSERT command if you want to keep it separate.


Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
[hidden email]
phone: [phone]




From:        ChetMeinzer <[hidden email]>
To:        [hidden email],
Date:        06/13/2013 02:47 PM
Subject:        [SPSSX-L] Over night production
Sent by:        "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <[hidden email]>

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What is the best method for running automatic process overnight on Windows
(don't have SPSS server edition yet)?  I want

Currently
1. saving syntax in an 'insert file... error=stop'.
2. creating SPJ in production
3. running syntax in '.bat' as
 "C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS\Statistics\21\stats.exe" -production
"K:\path.spj"
4. task scheduler in windows.

This works, but is there a good python solution or something with less
steps?





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