Quick Results with the Output Delivery System

Improve the appearance of your SAS output today! Learn the basic concepts of the Output Delivery System (ODS) and apply ODS features to your SAS output quickly and effectively. This book discusses issues associated with defining and selecting output destinations, selecting output objects, and creating customized output files. By using the step-by-step examples provided throughout the book, you will learn the benefits of ODS and you will see immediate results in the output you produce. This book addresses the following topics: understanding the structure of ODS statements, generating ODS reports, routing output from several SAS procedures, manipulating ODS objects, writing to the ODS OUTPUT destination, working with ODS destinations and objects, and enhancing reports with ODS styles.

Sunil has written and presented numerous papers about ODS at the local, regional, and international SAS users group conferences, including an invited paper for SUGI27 and SUGI26 titled "Using Styles and Templates to Customize SAS ODS Output." He presented another invited paper about ODS in the Beginners Tutorial section of SUGI27. Sunil developed and taught "Customized Reports with SAS Output Delivery System" at the regional Western Users of SAS Software confer ence and at several large corporations. Sunil has been working with ODS since it was introduced. His experience includes projects that use ODS for RTF file generation with SAS applications such as a case report form tracking information system, which is essential for clinical data compliance.