Generically speaking I'm looking for solution options for providing feedback to the user in the output rather than the log. What you described in your first scenario is essentially the logic I'm using, but the users don't want to look at the log so they are coming back to me for review. it would be nice if there was a 'put' equivalent that went to the listing/ods destination rather than just the log. In other programming languages outputting to any destination is done via the same methods but I can't find a way to pass a simple text message to the output stream for SAS. I agree that I should avoid user input, but there are other scenarios where this would be useful; say if something failed and the result table is empty, could I just output a message that says the data is not available for that table rather than dumping the entire log.
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