Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Output Objects and Output Destinations

After the table definitions are applied, each SAS procedure can then produce output objects. In the PROC CORR example, two output objects were created: the list of variables and the correlation matrix. These output objects can then be sent to one or more output destinations.

The default output destination is traditional SAS listing output.

On the facing page, Figure 2.7 through Figure 2.10 show a simple result that has been routed to a number of destinations, creating a number of pieces of ODS output. The PROC CORR step was run only once, producing the raw data that is combined with the table definition to create the basic output object. Then the style definitions interact with the output objects to create ...