Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Creating Consistent Printed Pages

If your output runs to more than one page, you might want to think about using the ODS UNIFORM option. This option calls for ODS to use the same column widths across all pages of your output. If you're creating a long report, this option creates a more consistent look for all of the pages.

However, it comes with a price. In order to figure out the best column width to use, the ODS UNIFORM option forces ODS to read the entire table before creating the first page of output. This requires additional memory. If you have an extremely long set of results or have limited memory available, you might want to skip this option. To see how this option makes a difference, look at the following example:

ODS PDF FILE='No_Uniform.pdf'; ...