Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Selecting Complex Combinations of Output Objects

In Chapter 6, "Exploring ODS Output," you saw a number of examples of identifying output objects by their labels. In this chapter, you have seen a number of examples of identifying output objects by their names. These are the simplest ways to identify an output object when you are creating an output data set or using the ODS SELECT or ODS EXCLUDE statements. However, these are not the only ways.

The following code uses a number of approaches to identify the output objects in its ODS SELECT statements. To see how these methods relate to the output objects, you need to review the ODS TRACE output shown in Figure 8.10. This is not a complete trace of the code, but rather a selection of tracings, ...