Overview: Using the Output Delivery System

Most SAS procedures use the Output Delivery System (ODS) to manage their output. ODS enables you to do the following:

• display your output in hypertext markup language (HTML), Rich Text Format (RTF), portable document format (PDF), PostScript, SAS listing (the default), or other formats

• create SAS data sets directly from tables or plots

• select or exclude individual pieces of output

• customize the layout, format, headers, and style of your output

• produce graphs with ODS Graphics in many procedures (see Chapter 21, Statistical Graphics Using ODS )

This chapter discusses some typical applications of ODS with SAS software. For complete documentation on the Output Delivery System, see the SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide.