SAS Programming 1: Essentials, Lesson 2: Accessing Data, Activity 1 No Output

[Lou11]

Hello, 

I've read a couple different posts on this topic and I'm still not sure why I'm not receiving any output. I'm using SAS On Demand.  

Here's my code: 

proc contents data="/home/USERNAME/EPG1V2/data/storm_summary.sas7bdat";
run;

(where username is my actual user id).

I copied and pasted the file path from properties. 

I receive no warnings in the my log but I see no table describing the contents of the data as shown in the instructional video. 

[jimbarbour]

Well, that's weird.  The "NOTE" in the log indicates that everything went fine.  I haven't used Studio for a while (I'm using Enterprise Guide as my interface), but I don't remember anything tricky about finding the output.  

I might try:

1.  Closing studio, re-opening studio, and then re-try running the Proc Contents.

2.  It could be that maybe your ODS (Output Delivery System) has some screwy setting.  Before your Proc Contents, insert the following

ODS Listing;

ODS HTML;

ODS HTML Exclude None;

It should look something like this:

ODS Listing;
ODS HTML;
ODS HTML Exclude None;
proc contents data="/home/USERNAME/EPG1V2/data/storm_summary.sas7bdat";
run;

That might be redundant to use ODS HTML twice, but hopefully that will "turn on" some of the output destinations if for some reason they are not active.  If you get any weird messages regarding ODS, try removing one or the other of the ODS HTML statements.

Jim

[Cynthia_sas · Accepted solution]

You might also try going into Preferences and on the Results choice, do a restore or reset to defaults. But usually logging off and logging on again should clear any strange behavior. The only other possibility is that you somehow resized and disappeared the Results tab.
Cynthia

[Lou11]

Thank you both. When I restarted, my results tab was small and in a weird place!

[jimbarbour]

Well, hopefully you can resize it. At least we got it working.

Jim