Sending the LOG and OUTPUT from PC SAS to a seperate file

Here is how to direct the SAS LOG file and or SAS Output  to a seperate file.

Approach 1: Using Display Manager Statements;

filename log 'C:\temp\logfile.log';

filename out 'C:\temp\output.lst';

*Select only male students and age less than 16;
proc sql;
create table males as
select age, height, weight
from sashelp.class
where sex='M' and age lt 16 
order by age;
quit;


*Get the descriptive statistics for height variable by age;
proc means data=males ;
by age;
var height;
output out=htstats mean=mean n=n std=sd median=med min=min max=max;
run;


DM 'OUT;FILE OUT REP;';
DM 'LOG;FILE LOG REP;';

Information about Display Manager Commands:
DEXPORT and DIMPORT: DISPLAY MANAGER commands used to IMPORT and EXPORT the Tab delimited (Excel and .CSV) files;
SAS Display Manager Commands



Approach 2: Using Proc PRINTTO procedure;

Refer:  How to save the log file or what is PROC PRINTTO procedure 

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SAS Display Manager Commands

In my view, Display Manager commands didn’t get much attention of SAS programmers as they should be. It may be because...

1) SAS Documentation has very little information about how to use this facility.
2) Even Google searches aren’t helpful enough.

Here is the list of Display Manager Commands I know…

dm"log; clear; out; clear;";*Clears Output and Log Window;
dm "vt work.dsn" ; *Opens the dataset DSN in a View table window;
dm "vt &syslast"; *Opens the dataset recently created;
dm 'next viewtable:work.dsn; end;';*Closes the VT window of DSN;
dm 'keydef f12 submit';*Assigns the submit command to the F12 key ;
*Assigns clear log and output commands to F2 Key;
dm "keydef F2 'cle log; cle output; submit'";
*applies detail view to explorer window;
dm  "next explorer; detail";

dm "next log; detail"; *Opens the Log Window;
dm "next output; detail"; *Opens the output Window;
dm "next editor; detail"; *Opens the Editor window;
dm 'next VIEWTABLE:; end;'; *Closes all opened viewtable windows;

dm 'odsresults' clear ; * Clears the Results window;
dm 'log off'; *Closes the LOG window;

dm "VT libname.dataset COLHEADING=NAMES";


VT=View Table.
COLHEADING=NAMES option displays column names as column headings instead of column labels which is default.


read more about DEXPORT and DIMPORT DM commands:
http://studysas.blogspot.com/2009/06/dexport-and-dimport-display-manager.html

dm: Display Manager
vt: View Table
keydef: Key Definition