The Complete Guide to the SAS Output Delivery System

Identifying Output Objects

Several of the features of the Output Delivery System (such as selecting and excluding output objects to send to ODS destinations or creating a data set from an output object) require that you specify one or more particular output objects for the system to process. You identify an output object by its name, its label, or its path. To learn what these are, run your SAS program preceded by this statement:

ods trace on;

As long as the tracing feature is on, information about each output object that is created appears in the SAS log.

Use this statement to stop sending the information to the log:

ods trace off;

For example, the following SAS program produces the SAS log that is shown in SAS Log Produced by the ODS TRACE Statement:

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=64 pagesize=60;
ods trace on;

proc univariate data=statepop mu0=3.5;
   var citypop_90 noncitypop_90;
   title;
run;

ods trace off;

SAS Log Produced by the ODS TRACE Statement

36   options nodate pageno=1 linesize=64 pagesize=60;
37   ods trace on;
38   
39   proc univariate data=statepop mu0=3.5;
40      var citypop_90 noncitypop_90;
41      title;
42   run;

Output Added:     
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Name:       Moments
Label:      Moments
Template:   base.univariate.Moments
Path:       Univariate.CityPop_90.Moments
-------------

Output Added:   
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Name:       BasicMeasures   <--
Label:      Basic Measures of Location and Variability
Template:   base.univariate.Measures
Path:       Univariate.CityPop_90.BasicMeasures
-------------

Output Added:
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Name:       TestsForLocation

Label:      Tests For Location
Template:   base.univariate.Location
Path:       Univariate.CityPop_90.TestsForLocation
-------------

Output Added:
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Name:       Quantiles
Label:      Quantiles
Template:   base.univariate.Quantiles
Path:       Univariate.CityPop_90.Quantiles
-------------

Output Added:
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Name:       ExtremeObs
Label:      Extreme Observations
Template:   base.univariate.ExtObs
Path:       Univariate.CityPop_90.ExtremeObs
-------------

Output Added:
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Name:       Moments     
Label:      Moments
Template:   base.univariate.Moments
Path:       Univariate.NonCityPop_90.Moments
-------------

Output Added:   
-------------
Name:       BasicMeasures   <-- 
Label:      Basic Measures of Location and Variability
Template:   base.univariate.Measures
Path:       Univariate.NonCityPop_90.BasicMeasures
-------------

Output Added:
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Name:       TestsForLocation
Label:      Tests For Location
Template:   base.univariate.Location
Path:       Univariate.NonCityPop_90.TestsForLocation
-------------

Output Added:
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Name:       Quantiles
Label:      Quantiles
Template:   base.univariate.Quantiles
Path:       Univariate.NonCityPop_90.Quantiles
-------------

Output Added:
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Name:       ExtremeObs
Label:      Extreme Observations
Template:   base.univariate.ExtObs
Path:       Univariate.NonCityPop_90.ExtremeObs
-------------

Output Added:
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Name:       MissingValues
Label:      Missing Values
Template:   base.univariate.Missings
Path:       Univariate.NonCityPop_90.MissingValues
-------------

If you compare this SAS log to the Results Folder that appears in View of the Results Folder, you can see that the string that identifies the output in the Results folder is its label.

For more information about the trace record, see ODS TRACE Statement.

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