PM65685: STATISTICS JOURNAL FILE DISPLAY ALL SYNTAX COMMANDS MINUS LAST CHARACTER WHEN EXECUTED VIA A PRODUCTION JOB

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• You work with IBM SPSS Statistics 20 and created a Production
  Job *.SPJ file. After running the job you locate the Session
  Journal file Statistics.jnl on your computer to check what
  syntax commands have been executed in the single SPSS sessions.
  You notice when you run syntax commands 'normally' all commands
  in the Journal file are displayed correctly.
  However, all syntax commands run via production job are
  displayed without the last character of any row in the session
  journal.
  
  For example the commands displayed in statistics.jnl file
  executed by production job looks like the one below in the
  Journal. As you can see it does not only affect the command
  terminator dot, it does also affect variable names (jobca
  instead of jobcat) and syntax keywords (MAXIMU instead of
  MAXIMUM):
  
  *>
  *>FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=educ jobca
  *>  /FORMAT=NOTABL
  *>  /STATISTICS=STDDEV MINIMUM MAXIMU
  *>  /HISTOGRA
  *>  /ORDER=ANALYSIS
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * Users working with Syntax journal file                       *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * You work with IBM SPSS Statistics 20 and created a           *
  * Production                                                   *
  * Job *.SPJ file. After running the job you locate the Session *
  * Journal file Statistics.jnl on your computer to check what   *
  * syntax commands have been executed in the single SPSS        *
  * sessions.                                                    *
  * You notice when you run syntax commands 'normally' all       *
  * commands                                                     *
  * in the Journal file are displayed correctly.                 *
  * However, all syntax commands run via production job are      *
  * displayed without the last character of any row in the       *
  * session                                                      *
  * journal.                                                     *
  *                                                              *
  * For example the commands displayed in statistics.jnl file    *
  * executed by production job looks like the one below in the   *
  * Journal. As you can see it does not only affect the command  *
  * terminator dot, it does also affect variable names (jobca    *
  * instead of jobcat) and syntax keywords (MAXIMU instead of    *
  * MAXIMUM):                                                    *
  *                                                              *
  * *>                                                           *
  * *>FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=educ jobca                           *
  * *>  /FORMAT=NOTABL                                           *
  * *>  /STATISTICS=STDDEV MINIMUM MAXIMU                        *
  * *>  /HISTOGRA                                                *
  * *>  /ORDER=ANALYSIS                                          *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  * This issue has been addressed in IBM SPSS Statistics 20      *
  * Fixpack 2 (20.0.0.2)                                         *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• This issue has been addressed in IBM SPSS Statistics 20 Fixpack
  2 (20.0.0.2)
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  SPSS STATISTICS

• Fixed component ID

  5725A54ST

Applicable component levels

• RK00 PSN

     UP

• RK00 PSY

     UP