Step-by-Step Programming with Base SAS 9.4

Selecting the Output That You Want to Format

Identifying Output

Program output, in the form of output objects, contain both the results of a procedure or DATA step and information about how to format the results. To select an output object for formatting, you need to know which output objects your program creates. To identify the output objects, you can use the ODS TRACE statement. The simplest form of the ODS TRACE statement is as follows:

ODS TRACE ON | OFF;

ODS TRACE determines whether to write to the SAS log a record of each output object that a program creates. The ON option writes the trace record to the log, and the OFF option suppresses the writing of the trace record.

The trace record has the following components:

Name

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