SAS Output Delivery System (ODS)
- Designed to overcome limitations of the traditional SAS output.
- Can deliver output to four destinations...
- to traditional monospace output destination
- to an HTML-formated destination
- to an output data set destination
- to printer destination
- Provides table definitions that define structure of output from procedures and from the DATA step.
- The table definitions can be customized or you can create your own.
- Provides a way to choose individual output objects to send to ODS destinations.
- ODS stores a link to each output object in the Results folder in the Results Window.
- A simple example for an HTML-formatted file:
ods html file= "example.htm" path= "e:\sasclass\output\" (url= none) style= minimal; proc freq data= test1; tables TRACTOR LANDOWNED PLOTS; run; ods html close;NOTE: All output from any procedure that prints to the output window or lst file that exists between "ods html ....; " and "ods html close;" will be sent to that ODS destination.
So, it is generally best to surround the procedure's output you would like to redirect with the opening and closing ODS statements.
