User`s guide

Data Export Files
Introduction to Data Export Data Export User’s Guide
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- Relations — Objects that identify the type of associations between
models.
- Rules — Objects that define the restrictions governing relationships.
• Historical Data
- Events — Instances of events recorded by SPECTRUM for
SPECTRUM models.
- Statistics — Performance indices for a model.
Data Export Files
This section briefly describes the Data Export files you will work with to
configure Data Export parameters:
• Definition files
• Data Export Script file
• Resource file
Definition Files
Before you can export data with Data Export, you must first create and save a
definition file for the export. It specifies the data to export and the format of
the output.
You will specify the following information in a definition file:
• A list of landscapes from which you want to export data.
• The name you want to assign to the output (file, data set, or table) when it
is created and the directory (ASCII/ SAS) or database table (SQL) where
you want to store the output.
• The format (ASCII, SAS, or SQL) of the output.
• The types of current data – model types, model type hierarchy, models,
attributes, extended attributes, associations, relations, and rules – to
export.
• The types of historical data – events and statistics – to export.
• The historical period from which to export events and statistics data.