RE: Production Jobs

2015-11-08 Thread Charles Johnson
hanks CJT > Subject: Re: Production Jobs > To: pspp-users@gnu.org > From: news@free.fr > Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 21:03:21 +0100 > > Same with me. In survey analysis you have more ad-hoc analyses , so > less repetition. > > I am far more interested in using MR and

Re: Production Jobs

2015-11-08 Thread ftr
Same with me. In survey analysis you have more ad-hoc analyses , so less repetition. I am far more interested in using MR and CTABLES. - ftr On 08/11/2015 18:21, Matthias Faeth wrote: I personally never use production jops and also never save .spv files but export results to excel. But I migh

Re: Production Jobs

2015-11-08 Thread Matthias Faeth
Syntax is saved anyway. Furthermore, it is no bad idea to save a "program" (=clean set of syntax) for all transformations and tables in case you find errors in the data after you have done tabulation and want to start anew. But this is probably not what Alan and John were up to discuss? Matthias F

Re: Production Jobs

2015-11-08 Thread Roberto Gil Saura [UV]
ISO 20252 on market research "forces" to save all the processes have been executed in a database so someone else could repeat exactly the same processes as the first time. This forces to save the syntax of all the processes running. Each process that can be used in "production jobs" will be welcome

Re: Production Jobs

2015-11-08 Thread Matthias Faeth
Correction: Do I understand correctly "production job" = "marco functionality"? Than I use that. Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de 2015-11-08 18:21 GMT+01:00 Matthias Faeth : > I personally never use production jops and also never save .sp

Re: Production Jobs

2015-11-08 Thread Matthias Faeth
I personally never use production jops and also never save .spv files but export results to excel. But I might be untypical. Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de 2015-11-08 18:15 GMT+01:00 Ben Pfaff : > On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 10:10:43AM +010

Re: Production Jobs

2015-11-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 10:10:43AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 01:36:01AM +, Charles Johnson wrote: > > From my point of view, production jobs are very useful to > automate lengthy and complex processes that are made > recurrently. As PSPP add mo

Re: Production Jobs

2015-11-08 Thread Roberto Gil Saura [UV]
Hi Charles and John. I'm very sad with this answer. I have general knowledge about computers, linux, cron and others, but I think that my collegues at the University dont't share this knowledge. Easy is better, and if the automation is in the same environment, these is the best. *Roberto Gil Saur

RE: Production Jobs

2015-11-08 Thread Charles Johnson
I agree with you, however, a few years ago when I had no more knowledge of computers, I would not have said the same. This is not to reinvent the wheel, but to offer a method that many users already know.  Such functionality in PSPP, could be available on any platform, and you have a group of