Understanding SAS Formatted Destinations

SAS formatted destinations create SAS entities such as a SAS data set, a SAS output listing, or an ODS document. The three SAS formatted destinations are

DOCUMENT destination

The DOCUMENT destination provides a GUI interface so that you can restructure, navigate, and replay your data in different ways and send your data to different destinations without rerunning your analysis. The output is kept in its original internal representation.

LISTING destination

The LISTING destination produces the traditional SAS monospace output.

OUTPUT destination

The OUTPUT destination produces SAS output data sets that save components of your analysis. Virtually all output from SAS procedures can be saved in output ...

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