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 in: 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: For information about how to ignore user-created definitions, see ODS PATH Statement.

Syntax

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

Optional Arguments

ON
prints the warning and sends output objects to open destinations.
Aliases:ODS VERIFY

YES

OFF
suppresses the warning.
Aliases:ODS NOVERIFY

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.