User's Manual

Building Streams

Exporting Stream Descriptions

You can export the conten

ts of the stream description to an HTML ﬁle.

To e xport a stream description:

E On the main menu, click:

File > Export Stream Description

E Enter a name for the HTML ﬁle and click Save.

Running Streams

Once you have speciﬁed the required options for streams and connected the required nodes, you

can run the stream by running the data through nodes in the stream. There are sev eral ways to run

a stre am within IBM® SPSS® Modeler. You can:

 Click Run on the Tools menu.

 Click one of the Run... buttons on the toolbar. These buttons allow you to run the e ntire

stream or simply the selected terminal node. For more information, see the topic IBM SPSS

Modeler Toolbar in Chapter 3 on p . 21.

 Run a single data stream b y right-clicking a termin al node and clicking Run on the pop-up

menu.

 Run part of a data stream by right-clicking any non- terminal node and clicking Run From

Here on the pop-up menu. Doing so c auses only those operations after the selected node to

be perfo r med.

To halt the running of a stream in progress, you can cli ck the red Stop button on the toolbar, or

click Stop Execution on the Tools menu.

If any stream takes longer than three seconds to run, the Execution Feedback dialog box is

display ed to ind icate the progress.

Figure 5-31

Execution Feedback dialog box