Viewing the Results

If you run SAS interactively, then in addition to using the ODS TRACE statement, you can also view your output objects in the Results window. The Results window is a tree view of the output created during your current SAS session.

The top level of the tree is a SAS procedure or DATA step. Beneath the procedure are items for each of the output objects that the procedure creates. If you click on a procedure or an output object label in the Results window, it brings up the Output window and jumps to the ODS output that was created from that output object (assuming that you have ODS LISTING turned on so that there is output in the Output window).

To illustrate this, look at the following example:

ODS TRACE ON / LABEL; proc univariate ...

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