Types of ODS Statements

DATA Step Statements

DATA step statements are either executable or declarative statements that appear in the DATA step. The ODS statements that are used in the DATA step are executable statements. Executable statements result in some action during individual iterations of the DATA step. For information about declarative statements, see SAS Language Reference: Dictionary .

Global Statements

Global statements

• provide information to SAS

• request information or data

• move between different modes of execution

• set values for system options.

The global ODS statements deliver or store output in a variety of formats. You can use global statements anywhere in a SAS program. Global Statements are not executable; they take effect as soon as SAS compiles program statements.

Global ODS statements are organized into three categories:

• ODS: Output Control

  • statements that provide descriptive information about the specified output objects and indicate whether or not the style definition or table definition is supplied by SAS. The Output Control statements can do the following:

    • select or exclude specific output objects for specific destinations

    • specify the location where you want to search for or store style definitions or table definitions

    • verify if you are using a style definition or a table definition that is supplied by SAS

    • provide descriptive information about each specified output object, such as name , label, template, path, and label path .

• ODS: SAS Formatted

  • statements that enable you to produce SAS specific items such as a SAS data set, SAS output listing, or an ODS document. The statements in the ODS SAS Formatted category create the SAS entities. For more information, see 'The SAS Formatted Destinations' on page 26.

• ODS: Third-Party Formatted

  • statements that enable you to apply styles and markup languages, or produce output to physical printers, using page description languages. For more information, see 'The Third-Party Formatted Destinations' on page 27.

Procedure Statements

For information about the TEMPLATE procedure, see Chapter 7, 'TEMPLATE Procedure: Overview,' on page 261. For information about the DOCUMENT procedure, see Chapter 6, 'The DOCUMENT Procedure,' on page 211.