Dictionary of ODS Language Statements

ODS VERIFY Statement

Prints or suppresses a message indicating that a style definition or a table definition being used is not supplied by SAS.

Valid:	anywhere
Category:	ODS: Output Control
Default:	If you do not specify the ODS VERIFY statement, then ODS runs with the verification process turned off. If you specify the ODS VERIFY statement but do not specify an argument, then ODS runs with verification turned on.
See also:	For information about how to ignore user-created definitions, see ODS PATH Statement.

Syntax
Options
Details
	Using the ODS VERIFY Statement

Syntax

ODS VERIFY <ON | OFF | ERROR | WARN>;

Options

ON

prints the warning and sends output objects to open destinations.

Alias:	ODS VERIFY
Alias:	YES

OFF

suppresses the warning.

Alias:	ODS NOVERIFY
Alias:	NO

ERROR

prints an error message instead of a warning message and does not send output objects to open destinations.

WARN

prints a warning message and does not send output objects to open destinations.

Details

Using the ODS VERIFY Statement

PROC TEMPLATE can modify the values in an output object. None of the definitions that SAS provides modifies any values. If you receive a warning from the ODS VERIFY statement, then look at the source code to verify that the values have not been modified.

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