The Output Delivery System (2)

Producing HTML Output

The Output Delivery System

ODS Destinations

In your ODS statement(s), you specify one or more ODS destinations for your output. An ODS destination specifies a specific type of output. The table below lists the the ODS destinations that are supported.

This destination . . .	Produces . . .
HTML	output that is formatted in HTML
Listing	output that is formatted like traditional SAS procedure (listing) output
Markup Language Family	output that is formatted using markup languages such as XML
ODS Document	a hierarchy of output objects that enables you to render multiple ODS output without rerunning procedures
Output	SAS data sets
Printer Family	output that is formatted for a high-resolution printer
RTF	output that is formatted for use with Microsoft Word

In this lesson, we'll be working with the Listing destination and the HTML destination. For information on other ODS destinations, please refer to the SAS 9 Output Delivery System User's Guide.

How ODS Works
When you submit your ODS statements and the SAS program that creates your output, ODS does the following:

ODS creates your output in the form of output objects.

Each output object contains the results of a procedure or DATA step (the data component) and may also contain information about how to render the results (the table definition).

ODS sends the output object to the destination(s) you specified and creates output as appropriate.

ODS creates a link to each output object in the Results window and identifies each output object by the appropriate icon.

Results window