Required Arguments

location(s)

specifies one or more locations to write to or read from when creating or using PROC TEMPLATE items and the order in which to search for them. ODS searches the locations in the order in which they appear on the statement. It uses the first definition that it finds that has the appropriate access mode (Read, Write, or Update) set.

Each location has this form:

<libref.>item-store <(READ | UPDATE | WRITE)>

<libref.>item-store

identifies an item store to read from, to write to, or to update. If an item store does not already exist, then the PATH statement creates it.

(READ | UPDATE | WRITE)

specifies the access mode for the item. An access mode is one of the following:

READ

provides Read-Only access.

WRITE

provides Write access (always creating a new template store) as well as Read access.

UPDATE

provides Update access (creating a new template store only if the specified one does not exist) as well as Read access.

Default:READ

Default:The general default path is as follows: Sasuser.Templat (UPDATE), Sashelp.Tmplmst (READ). If you have specified the RSASUSER SAS system option, then the default path is as follows: Work.Templat(UPDATE), Sasuser.Templat (READ), Sashelp.Tmplmst(READ). SAS stores all the items that it provides in Sashelp.Tmplmst.

Tip:If you want to be able to ignore all the items that you create, then keep them in their own item stores so that you can leave them out of the list of item stores that ODS searches.

See:RSASUSER System Option in SAS System Options: Reference for more information about how to open the Sasuser library for Read access or Read-Write access.

path-argument

sets or displays the ODS path.

path-argument is one of the following:

RESET

sets the ODS path to the default settings Sasuser.Templat (UPDATE) and Sashelp.Tmplmst (READ).

SHOW

displays the current ODS path.

VERIFY

sets the ODS path to include only templates supplied by SAS. Specifying VERIFY is the same as specifying ODS PATH Sashelp.Tmplmst (READ).