SAS 9.1 Output Delivery System Users Guide

Overview

The Output Delivery System (ODS) provides an almost limitless number of choices for reporting and displaying analytical results with a greater variety of formatting selections and output destinations.

SAS 9 and 9.1 provide an array of markup languages including HTML4 and XML. The TEMPLATE procedure and the new tagset template enable you to modify any markup language that SAS provides, or to create your own markup language for output.

The new experimental ODS GRAPHICS statement enables you to produce graphics output.

The new DOCUMENT procedure enables you to customize or modify your output hierarchy and replay your output to different destinations without rerunning the PROC or DATA step.

Note:

• This section describes the features of the SAS Output Delivery System that are new or enhanced since SAS 8.2.

• z/OS is the successor to the OS/390 operating system. SAS 9.1 is supported on both OS/390 and z/OS operating systems and, throughout this document, any reference to z/OS also applies to OS/390, unless otherwise stated.