topic SAS Report destination for batch? in ODS and Base Reporting

SAS Report destination for batch?

mbuchecker — Wed, 25 May 2016 14:59:37 GMT

Hi, I know that the default output style for EG is SAS Report and the code works fine. But when I run the same code in batch (Linux), it's failing with a message of :

ERROR: The width of InstanceName is not between 1 and 115. Adjust the column width or line size.

NOTE: This affects LISTING output.

Is the ODS destination of DOCUMENT the same as EGs' SAS Report? If not, what do I use to mimic what EG is doing? I don't need the style to be LISTING.

TIA!

Re: SAS Report destination for batch?

Cynthia_sas — Wed, 25 May 2016 23:04:37 GMT

The DOCUMENT destination is NOT the same as SASReport in EG. SASReport is an XML output and the DOCUMENT destination is a binary item store that stores your output objects so they can be "replayed" to other ODS destinations.

You could try ODS LISTING CLOSE; before your code in Linux. Are you trying to create SASReport XML (.SRX) file in Linux in batch? Or are you creating another file type.

I believe that message usually appears when
1) the LISTING destination is open (as it would be in batch) and
2) the calculated value needed for the line size of the report in LISTING exceeds the value of the LINESIZE system option.

Here's a paper https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/sgf09/318-2009.pdf about using ODS DOCUMENT and PROC DOCUMENT to "replay" output -- as you can see on page 13/14 the PROC DOCUMENT "replay" has to be within an ODS "sandwich".

cynthia

Re: SAS Report destination for batch?

mbuchecker — Thu, 26 May 2016 19:27:47 GMT

Thanks Cynthia. I knew SASReport was XML, but knew nothing about DOCUMENT.

Closing the LISTING and using ODS EXCEL did the trick.