Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Removing Access to a Personal or Group Template

After your code runs, you have several choices for how to gracefully remove your template from the ODS PATH. You can restore the ODS PATH to the defaults, which are SASUSER.TEMPLAT and SASHELP.TMPLMST. This can be done using the following statement after your code runs:

ODS PATH RESET;

However, if you are using an application that depends on its own item store, you might interfere with the templates that the application expected to find.

To simply remove your special item store or template store from the ODS PATH search list, you can reverse the PREPEND action of the ODS PATH statement by submitting the following statement:

ODS PATH (REMOVE) mygrp.grptemplates(read);

This syntax removes your item ...