Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Using PROC DOCUMENT to Manage Document Stores

The first example in this chapter created the document store WORK.ORIGDOC. Now that we have a document store, we can use PROC DOCUMENT to manage it. This procedure can list contents information about the document store as well as rearrange, duplicate, or remove output from it.

The following PROC DOCUMENT step produces a list of the contents of the WORK.ORIGDOC document store. Figure 11.5 shows the output.

ODS LISTING;
  proc document name=work.origdoc;
     list / levels=all;
  run;
  quit;

If you wanted to see only the list of BY groups, starting in SAS 9.2 you can add the BYGROUPS option to the LIST statement.

LIST / LEVELS=ALL BYGROUPS;

An important feature of PROC DOCUMENT is that it allows run-group processing. ...