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Opening ODS listing after Closing: ODS LISTING; doesn't work

ewgrashorn — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 21:31:56 GMT

Hi SAS Community,

I am using SAS 9.4 and I (accidentially) closed ODS LISTING by doing "ODS _ALL_ CLOSE;" and now I can't get my output back. I have done "ODS LISTING;" and it doesn't fix it; all proc statements run but nothing shows up in the results pane and nothing appears in the output window. When I do "ods listing show;" I get this output:

2307 ods listing show;
Current LISTING select list is set to default value (ALL).
Current OVERALL select list is: NONE

Can anyone else help me?

Thanks,
Eric

Re: Opening ODS listing after Closing: ODS LISTING; doesn't work

ballardw — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:09:00 GMT

Default with 9.4 is HTML not Listing.

You may need to provide a PATH to work with that if setting with code

ODS HTML <path>;

where path points to a location you can write to.

Or go to the menu Tool>Options>Preferences>Results and see if the HTML box is checked, if not check it.

And I HATE all the examples floating around with the _ALL_ Close.

Re: Opening ODS listing after Closing: ODS LISTING; doesn't work

Reeza — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 22:10:54 GMT

Just a thought, do you have the results window open? You should only need:

ods listing;

The default in 9.4 is HTML though, which would be:

ods html;

Re: Opening ODS listing after Closing: ODS LISTING; doesn't work

ewgrashorn — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:16:13 GMT

Sorry, I should have clarified that in this session I set my preferences to revert back to the SAS 9.2 way of display (under Tools/Preferences uncheck "Create HTML", uncheck "Use ODS Graphics" and check "Create Listing". The only reason I was mucking about with all of this is I was trying to get all output to always show up in the Output window (instead of sometimes showing up in the Results Viewer.) I must have screwed things up beyond where I can fix them. One note is that nothing shows up in the Results Window (not Results Viewer, but the Results Window or Panel or whatever it is called) whenever I run a proc. The log indicates that the proc has run, but like I said, no output shows up.

Re: Opening ODS listing after Closing: ODS LISTING; doesn't work

Reeza — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:24:56 GMT

Did you accidently use ODS NORESULTS? Or ODS exclude?

Does the following change anything?

ODS RESULTS;
ODS SELECT ALL;
ODS LISTING;
Proc Means data=sashelp.class;run;

Re: Opening ODS listing after Closing: ODS LISTING; doesn't work

ewgrashorn — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:28:02 GMT

I must have done ODS NORESULTS somehow. ODS RESULTS fixed it. I don't know why I couldn't find this solution elsewhere. Thanks so much for the solution, Reeza!

Re: Opening ODS listing after Closing: ODS LISTING; doesn't work

Reeza — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:32:21 GMT

One of the answers I know, because I've done it