Using Compute Services

Compute Services and the Output Delivery System

You can use the SAS Output Delivery System (ODS) to format the SAS output that is generated in a SAS session that runs on a server either synchronously or asynchronously. For details about ODS, see the SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide.

Here are four typical programming scenarios for using Compute Services with ODS to manage output that is produced in a server session.

Remotely submit procedure statements without any ODS statements.

Any output that is produced by the remote submit produces a node in the Results window that has the name Rsubmit: (server-ID) . The Results window uses ODS to generate pointers (nodes) to various positions in the Output window. The resulting node is a record of the output that is generated during a SAS server session.
Precede and end the remote submit block (RSUBMIT through ENDRSUBMIT) with the appropriate ODS opening statement (such as ODS HTML or ODS PDF) and the corresponding ODS closing statement (such as HTML CLOSE or PDF CLOSE). Appropriate results are produced in the SAS session at the client. For example, ODS HTML produces output in the Results Viewer. ODS PDF produces output in the Results window.
Precede RSUBMIT with the ODS OUTPUT statement.

The output from the RSUBMIT appears in the Results window and is saved as a SAS data set.
Remotely submit ODS statements and procedures and DATA step statements to produce the ODS output in the server session.

The output is processed and generated entirely in the server session. Therefore, the results (for example, a SAS data set or HTML output) must be downloaded from the server session to the client session.

For all scenarios that use asynchronous processing, use the RGET Command and RGET Statement. The output is not available until the results are retrieved. The accumulated output is retrieved and transferred to the client session.

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