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Chapter 5
Figure 5-14
Streams tab in the managers pane with pop-up menu options
From this tab, you can:
 Access streams.
 Save streams .
 Save streams to the current project.
 Close streams .
 Open new streams.
 Store and retrieve streams from an IBM SPSS Collaborati on and Deployment Services
repository (if available at you r site). For mor e information, see the topic About the IBM SPSS
Collabor ation and Deployment Services Repository in C hapter 9 on p. 158.
Right-click a stream on the Streams tab to access these options.
Setting Options for Streams
You can specify a number of options to ap ply to the curren t stream. You can also save these
options as defaults to apply to all your s treams. The options are as f ollows.
 General. Miscellaneous options such as symbols and text encoding to use in the stream. For
more information, s ee the topic Setting general o ptions for streams on p. 55 .
 Date/Time. Options relating to the format of date and time expressions. For more info r mation,
see the topic Setting date and time o ptions for streams on p. 57.
 Number formats. Options controlling the format of numeric expressions. For more information,
see the topic Setting number format options f or streams on p. 59 .
 Optimization. Options for optimiz ing stream performance. For more information, see the
topic Setting optimiz ation options for streams on p. 60.