SPSS® 12.0 Command Syntax Reference

1122 OMS
keyword must be followed by an equals sign (=) and a list of positional arguments enclosed
in square brackets.
• The general form of a positional argument is a letter indicating the default position of the
element -- C for column, R for row, or L for layer -- followed by a positive integer indicating
the default position within that dimension. For example, R1 would indicate the outermost
row dimension element.
• A letter indicating the default dimension followed by ALL indicates all elements in that
dimension in their default order. For example, RALL would indicate all row dimension elements,
and CALL by itself would be unnecessary since it would not alter the default arrangement
of the table. ALL cannot be combined with positional sequence numbers in the
same dimension.
• SEQUENCE=[CALL RALL LALL] will put all dimension elements in the columns. With
FORMAT=SAV, this will result in one case per table in the data file.
Example
OMS
/SELECT TABLES
/IF COMMANDS = [’Regression’] SUBTYPES = [’Coefficient Correlations’]
/DESTINATION FORMAT = SAV OUTFILE = ’c:\mydir\myfile.sav’
/COLUMNS SEQUENCE = [R1 R2].
Figure 3 Positional arguments for dimension elements
TAG Subcommand
OMS commands remain in effect until the end of the session or until you explicitly end them
with the OMSEND command, and you can have multiple OMS commands in effect at the same
time. You can use the TAG subcommand to assign an ID value to each OMS command, which
allows you to selectively end particular OMS commands with a corresponding TAG keyword
on the OMSEND command. The ID values assigned on the TAG subcommand are also used
to identify OMS commands in the log created by the OMSLOG command.
Example
OMS
/DESTINATION FORMAT = OXML OUTFILE = ’c:\mydir\myfile.xml’
/TAG = ’oxmlout’.