New Output Defaults in SAS 9.3

In SAS 9.3, output in the SAS windowing environment is created by default in HTML. In addition, ODS Graphics is enabled by default. The following sections explain the advantages of these new defaults and how to change the defaults to match those of previous releases:

HTML output with ODS Graphics enabled is the default in the SAS windowing environment for Microsoft Windows and UNIX. LISTING output with ODS Graphics disabled is the default when you run SAS in batch mode or on the mainframe in SAS 9.3. LISTING output with ODS Graphics disabled is the default in all environments in previous SAS releases. Your actual defaults might be different due to your registry, system option, or configuration file settings.