topic Re: Proc contents : warning message in SAS Programming

Proc contents : warning message

SASdevAnneMarie — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 14:38:33 GMT

Hello Experts,

Could you please explain me why I have this warning message :

Thank you !

Re: Proc contents : warning message

ballardw — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 14:47:57 GMT

You must have one or more ODS destination active. By default this is usually ODS HTML that appears in the results window.

If you have for some reason submitted some code with ODS _all_ close; (most likely cause I see is using someone else's code) without providing a new ODS Html (or LIsting RTF PDF or other) then SAS has no place to send the print results of proc compare to.

Add an

ODS HTML;

before the Proc Compare and the warning should go away and output appear in the results.

Re: Proc contents : warning message

SASdevAnneMarie — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:14:40 GMT

Thank you, Ballard,
I didn't use ODS _all_ close on my code.

I put ODS HTML;, but I have an error :
35 ods html;
NOTE: Writing HTML Body file: sashtml2.htm
ERROR: Insufficient authorization to access C:\Applications\SAS\SASConfig\Lev1\SASApp\sashtml2.htm.
ERROR: No body file. HTML output will not be created.
36 proc contents data=Produit_OCP out=colonnes(keep=NAME);
37 run;

Re: Proc contents : warning message

ballardw — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:37:03 GMT

If you are using the Display Manager (Foundation or Base SAS) try going to the menu Tools>Options>Preferences, go to the Results tab, make sure the "Create HTML" box is checked and then check the Use Work Folder.

Other wise you need to provide either a path to a folder on the ODS HTML statement such as

Ods htm path='c:/folder/subfolder'; as a window example.

ODS Preferences;

will reset to the default but this will change other preferences besides the ods destination. If you haven't customized your preferences then not an issue but if you have then those customizations will be reset.