05-Enhancing-Your-Output-with-ODS推荐.pdf

The Little SAS Book: A Primer, Fifth Edition Chapter 5: Enhancing Your Output with ODS Some men see things as they are and say, Why. I dream things that never were and say, Why not. Robert F. Kennedy From Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations from the Library of Congress, edited by Suzy Platt, copyright 1992 by Library of Congress. Based on George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, act 1, 1949. 5.1 Concepts of the Output Delivery System You might think that procedures produce output. They dont. Technically, procedures produce only data. Then they send that data to the Output Delivery System (ODS) which determines where the output should go and what it should look like when it gets there. That means the question to ask yourself is not whether you want to use ODS—you always use ODS. The question is whether to accept default output or choose something else. ODS is like a busy airport. Passengers arrive by car and bus. Once at the airport, passengers check baggage, pass security, eventually board a plane, and fly out to their destinations. In ODS, data are like passengers arriving from various procedures. ODS processes each set of data and sends it off to its proper destination. In fact, different types of ODS output are called destinations. What your data look like when they get to their destination is determined by templates. A template is a set of instructions telling ODS how to format your data. These two concepts—destinations and templates— are fundamental to understanding what you can do with ODS. Destinations Starting with SAS 9.3 if you dont specify a destination, your output will be sent, by default, to HTML when you use the SAS windowing environment in Microsoft Windows or UNIX. With SAS 9.2 and earlier, the default destination was LISTING. LISTING is still the default for programs run in batch or in other operating environments. Here are t