Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Creating a Single Output Data Set

The first thing you need to know about ODS output data sets is that you can create a lot of them. A single procedure frequently generates multiple output objects, and you can create data sets from each of the output objects produced by a procedure.

Before covering the complexities of handling these multiple output data sets, we're going to start out simple. This first example looks at creating just one output data set. To request an output data set, you use the following ODS statement:

ODS OUTPUT output-object=data-set-name;

Also, you can specify more than one output object and data set name pair in your invocation. The syntax would look like this:

ODS OUTPUT output-object=data-set-name output-object-n=data-set-name-n ...