ODS DOCUMENT CLOSE doesn't work

[braam]

Dear All,

My code doesn't work as intended. What I want to do is to save two results in ODS DOCUMENT named temporary and to recall them later by using PROC DOCUMENT.

When I run the code once, it seemed that it worked given that there was no error. PROC DOCUMENT also showed two results from previous PROC PRINT.

But when I run the code again (i.e., twice), PROC DOCUMENT showed "two times" of what I expect to see. It implies that ODS DOCUMENT CLOSE didn't work as I intended. Instead, ODS DOCUMENT seems to keep recording the code that has been executed. Did I do something wrong? Thanks for reading.

ods document name= temporary;
proc print data= sashelp.cars (obs= 10); run;
proc print data= sashelp.stocks (obs= 10);run;

ods document close;

proc document name= temporary; replay; run; quit;

[WarrenKuhfeld · Accepted solution]

https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=odsug&docsetTarget=n0nz6m09jrb7jsn1h8rngbvzk65u.htm&docsetVe...

Use the WRITE access option.

[Kurt_Bremser]

When I run your code:

ods document name=temporary;

proc print data= sashelp.cars (obs=10);
run;

proc print data= sashelp.stocks (obs=10);
run;

ods document close;

proc document name=temporary;
replay;
run;
quit;

repeatedly, I always get the same output: PRINT for cars and stocks from the original call, and then again from the REPLAY.

Cancel the above; I had only the PROC DOCUMENT marked when hitting "submit".

SIG_NOT_ENOUGH_COFFEE.