Chapter 8. Limiting ODS Output

In general, when you run a SAS procedure and don't add ODS features, your output choices are pretty much all or nothing. Either you get pages of output, or if the procedure has the NOPRINT option, you get no output other than a data set.

When you add ODS features to your programs, you can have much more control over the amount of output your procedure steps produce and you can send components of the output to different destinations.

This chapter shows you how to use ODS to select or exclude specific output objects so that you can get exactly the output you want, in exactly the formats you want, for any procedure you want. For example, you can request a complete output data set, one table from the results in RTF, ...

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