User's Manual

Building Streams

Figure 5-13

Data Preview from a model nugget

From the Gen erate menu, you can create several types of nodes.

Locking Nodes

To prevent other users from amending the settings of one or more nodes in a stream, you can

encapsulate the node or no des in a special type of node c alled a SuperNode, and then lock the

SuperNode by applying password protection.

Working with Streams

Once you have connected source, process, and terminal nodes on the stream canvas, you h ave

created a stream. As a collection of nodes, streams can be saved, annotated, and adde d to projects.

You can also set numerous o ptions for streams, suc h as optimization, date and time settings,

parameters, and scripts. These properties ar e discussed in the topics t ha t follow.

In IBM® SP SS® Modeler, you can use and modify more than one data stream in the same

SPSS Modeler session. The right side of the main window contains the managers pane, which

helps you to navigate the streams, outputs and m odels th at are currently open. If you cannot see

the managers pane, c lick Managers on the View menu, then c lick the Streams tab.