Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Creating a New Document Store Using PROC DOCUMENT

Two examples before this one, we created and organized the document store NEWHR interactively. The hierarchy that you see in the SAS Results window is the same hierarchy that is originally created in the document store. What if you want a different organization or hierarchy for the objects created by SAS? For example, you might want to change the structure or hierarchy of the document objects that are produced by a nightly batch job. This example shows you how you can create and modify the organization of a document store using PROC DOCUMENT code.

The NAME= option in the PROC DOCUMENT statement creates a new document store. The MAKE statement creates folders and subfolders. The DIR statement ...