| Louise Hadden |
SAS® procedures can convey an enormous amount of information – sometimes more information than is needed. Most
SAS procedures generate ODS objects behind the scenes. SAS uses these objects with style templates that have
custom buckets for certain types of output to produce the output that we see in all destinations (including the SAS listing).
By tracing output objects and ODS templates using ODS TRACE (DOM) and by manipulating procedural output and ODS
OUTPUT objects, we can pick and choose just the information that we want to see. We can then harness the power of
SAS data management and reporting procedures to coalesce the information collected and present the information
accurately and attractively. |