You want a PUT statement, you can use a PUT statement.... data _null_ ; file print ; put "Thank you for trying, but please try again." ; run; If you stored process is writing to _webout or whatever, that should write the message to the output. In practice, I seem to switch randomly between ODS text=, data _null_ like above, and your mentioned approach of proc reporting a 1-variable 1-record dataset.
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