Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Breaking Up Output into Separate Files

All of the examples thus far have shown the results in a single body file. To view each of the results, you have to scroll down the page or click on the appropriate table of contents link. If you want to print one of the results, you have to print the whole page. If your output is lengthy, or your users need to access it via a slow connection, you might want to break your output up into smaller files.

The ODS HTML statement supports an option that creates a separate body file for each procedure. Alternatively, you can put the results from a few procedures in one body file, and the results from the next few procedures in another. The following code shows how to take our sample program from the previous examples ...