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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;" statements will be sent to that ODS destination.
So, it's generally best to surround the procedure who's output you'd like to redirect with the opening and closing ODS statements.