Problem Note 46596: "No output destinations active" warning message generated
The warning message "No output destinations active" is generated if the following statements are the first statements submitted in a SAS 9.3 session:
ods html close;
ods preferences;
The ODS PREFERENCES statement should enable SAS to investigate the settings selected in Tools ► Options ► Preferences ► Results. It should also reactivate the ODS HTML destination that is set by default in the SAS windowing environment in SAS 9.3. See SAS Note 42874 for a reference to this setting.
It is not recommended that the statements above be submitted as the first lines of code. However, if they are in effect and the warning message "No output destinations active" is generated, there are two suggested workarounds:
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Exit and restart SAS.
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Submit the following statement to route output to the HTML destination:
NOTE: The subsequent HTML files will reside in the current working directory, which is not the SASWORK directory. Subsequent HTML files and any images included in them will persist in the current working directory, and will not be deleted when SAS closes.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | N/A | z/OS | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Z64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Linux | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Linux on Itanium | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows Vista | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.3 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M2 |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
If the statements ODS HTML CLOSE; and ODS PREFERENCES; are the first statements submitted in a SAS® 9.3 session, the warning message "No output destinations active" is generated.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2012-05-21 13:11:26 |
| Date Created: | 2012-05-17 13:21:41 |
