What's New in the Output Delivery System
Overview
The following enhancements
have been made to the Output Delivery System:
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In SAS 9.3, defaults for output
in the SAS windowing environment for Microsoft Windows and UNIX have
changed.
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The ODS Graphics Editor, the ODS
Graphics Designer, and the ODS Graphics Procedures have moved from
SAS/GRAPH to Base SAS.
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The Printer, PDF, PS, and PCL default
printer values can now be changed in the SAS Registry.
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Enhancements have been made to
the DOCUMENT procedure.
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Enhancements have been made to
the TEMPLATE procedure.
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Enhancements have been made to
the ODS statements.
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There are three new system options.
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In the second maintenance release
for SAS 9.3, the ODS PREFERENCES statement has been added.
Changes to Default Output in the SAS Windowing Environment
for UNIX and Windows
HTML Output in the SAS Windowing Environment
In SAS 9.3, the default
destination in the SAS windowing environment is HTML, and ODS Graphics
is enabled by default. These new defaults have several advantages.
Graphs are integrated with tables, and all output is displayed in
the same HTML file using a new style. This new style, HTMLBlue, is
an all-color style that is designed to integrate tables and modern
statistical graphics.
For complete information about this change, see New Output Defaults in SAS 9.3.
You can view and modify
the default settings by selecting
ToolsOptionsPreferences from the menu at the top of the main SAS window.
Then open the
Results tab. You can remember
this sequence using the mnemonic TOPR (pronounced “topper”).
The following display shows the SAS
Results tab
with the new default settings specified:
The default settings
in the
Results tab are as follows:
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The
Create listing check
box is not selected, so LISTING output is not created.
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The
Create HTML check
box is selected, so HTML output is created.
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The
Use WORK folder check
box is selected, so both HTML and graph image files are saved in the
WORK folder (and not your current directory).
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The default style, HTMLBlue, is
selected from the
Style drop-down list.
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The
Use ODS Graphics check
box is selected, so ODS Graphics is enabled.
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Internal browser is
selected from the
View results using: drop-down
list, so results are viewed in the
SAS Results Viewer.
In many cases, graphs
are an integral part of a data analysis. However, when you run large
computational programs (such as when you use procedures with many
BY groups) you might not want to create graphs. In those cases, you
should disable ODS Graphics, which will improve the performance of
your program. You can disable and re-enable ODS Graphics in your SAS
programs with the ODS GRAPHICS OFF and ODS GRAPHICS ON statements.
You can also change the ODS Graphics default in the
Results tab.
LISTING Output in the SAS Windowing Environment
Before SAS 9.3, SAS
output in the SAS windowing environment was created by default in
the LISTING destination. In the LISTING destination, tables are displayed
in monospace, and graphs are not integrated with tables.
For complete information
about this change, see New Output Defaults in SAS 9.3.
You can create LISTING
output by selecting
ToolsOptionsPreferences from the menu at the top of the main SAS window.
Then open the
Results tab. Select the
Create
listing check box, and if you do not want HTML output,
then do not select the
Create HTML check
box.
Before SAS 9.3, ODS
Graphics was disabled by default. You can enable or disable ODS Graphics
by default by using the check box in the
Results tab,
and you can use the ODS GRAPHICS ON and ODS GRAPHICS OFF statements
to enable and disable ODS Graphics in your SAS programs. The following
display shows the SAS
Results tab with the
old default settings specified:
Selected SAS/GRAPH Products Included with Base SAS Software
A
SAS/GRAPH license
is no longer required for ODS Graphics. The Graph Template Language
(GTL), the ODS Graphics Procedures, the ODS Graphics Editor, and the
ODS Graphics Designer are now all available with Base SAS software.
The documentation for these products is now included in the Base SAS
node in the SAS 9.3 Help and Documentation. For more information about
these applications, see the following documentation:
Changes to PRINTER Registry Settings
The Printer, PDF, PS,
and PCL default printer values can now be changed in the SAS Registry.
See New Output Defaults in SAS 9.3 for more detailed
information about this “Default Printer” attribute and
how it can be modified.
DOCUMENT Procedure Enhancements
The following enhancements have been made to the DOCUMENT procedure:
SAS/GRAPH external graph titles are now
included in an ODS Document.
The PRINT procedure is now fully supported
by the DOCUMENT procedure.
The WHERE option for the REPLAY statements now has the following
enhancements:
New subsetting variables
have been added to the WHERE option for the REPLAY statement.
is the first observation.
is the current observation
number in an output object.
is the observation
number to be replayed.
is the name of an observation.
The WHERE option in
the REPLAY statement now applies to output objects as well as directories.
For more information,
see the REPLAY Statement.
The following options
are new:
in the IMPORT TO statement
imports a text file into an ODS document that can be replayed to open
ODS destinations.
in the LIST statement
creates, in the entry list, columns for BY variables.
in the OBANOTE statement
specifies that a table containing the output object’s after
notes will be written to active destinations.
in the OBBNOTE statement
specifies that a table containing the output object’s before
notes will be written to active destinations.
in the OBFOOTN statement
specifies that a table containing the output object’s footnotes
will be written to active destinations.
in the OBSTITLE statement
specifies that a table containing the output object’s subtitles
will be written to active destinations.
in the OBTITLE statement
specifies that a table containing the output object’s titles
will be written to active destinations.
Template Procedure Enhancements
Table Template Enhancements
Style Template Enhancements
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BACKGROUNDPOSITION=
position
specifies the position
of the background of the tables, cells, or graphs.
BORDERCOLLAPSE= COLLAPSE | SEPARATE
specifies whether the
border is collapsed or separated.
PADDING=
dimension |
dimension%
specifies the amount
of white space between the content of the cell and the border.
PADDINGBOTTOM=
dimension |
dimension%
specifies the amount
of white space on the bottom of the content of the cell in the table.
PADDINGLEFT=
dimension |
dimension%
specifies the amount
of white space on the left side of the content of the cell in the
table.
PADDINGRIGHT=
dimension |
dimension%
specifies the amount
of white space on the right side of the content of the cell in the
table.
PADDINGTOP=
dimension |
dimension%
specifies the amount
of white space on the top of the content of the cell in the table.
WHITESPACE= NORMAL | NOWRAP | PRE | PRE_LINE | PRE_WRAP
specifies how a line
of text wraps.
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ODS Statements Enhancements
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In the second maintenance release
for SAS 9.3, the ODS PREFERENCES statement has been added.
For more information,
see ODS PREFERENCES Statement.
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The HTML, PDF, PCL, and LISTING
destinations now support Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
For information about scalable vector graphics, see Using Scalable Vector Graphics in SAS/GRAPH: Reference.
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The PDF and PCL destinations now
create Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) by default.
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The HTML destination now supports
the BMP image type.
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The ODS PRINTER statement now supports
the GTITLE option and the GFOOTNOTE option.
For more information,
see the ODS PRINTER Statement .
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The following new event tagsets
have been added to support the measured tagset: TAGSETS.MEAS_EVENT_MAP,
TAGSETS.MEAS_SHORT_MAP, and TAGSET.MEAS_TEXT_MAP.
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OPTIONS (DOC=“changelog”)
provides version control information for the measured tagset. When
specified, information is printed to the SAS Log.
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OPTIONS (TOC_LEVEL=
) enables the user to set the number of levels that appear in the
table of contents.
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OPTIONS (CONTINUE_TAG=
) enables the user to add a continue tag to the RTF document when
a table breaks and is continued to the next page.
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OPTIONS (WATERMARK=
) enables the user to add a watermark to an RTF document. Use the
ODS TAGSETS.RTF statement option WATERMARK to assign the text that
will be displayed diagonally across each page of the RTF document.
New System Options
The following system
options are new for ODS:
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The new system option ODSDEST=
restores the SAS version 9.2 output behavior in the SAS windowing
environment.
For
more information, see ODSDEST= System Option.
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The new system option ODSGRAPHICS=
restores default 9.2 behavior in the Display Manager for ODS Graphics.
For more information,
see ODSGRAPHICS= System Option.
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The new system option ODSSTYLE=
restores the default 9.2 HTML style.
For more information,
see ODSSTYLE= System Option.
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