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SAS DM - Getting Rid of the Results Tab

I'm looking for a way to get rid of the Results Tab, keeping only the Explorer Tab which can itself display the results. However, WSAVE ALL doesn't "remember" that configuration detail, and even when I manually close it, it keeps showing up again every time I run a procedure which generates results.

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Solution

  • I found what seems to be a durable solution. Here are the steps to follow:

    1. Activate the Explorer pane. Go to Options > Tools > Explorer... and under the General tab, make sure Results is checked (by default, it is not).

    2. In your autoexec.sas file, inclure the following line:

      dm "odsresults; cancel";

    3. Restart SAS

    Et voilà!

    The Results pane is now gone, and the results will appear as usual in a Results Viewer window with the items listed directly in the Explorer Window (turn on the tree view to easily access both your libraries and the output items. Use WSAVE ALL in the commands window for SAS to remember that configuration).

    Note 1: Under Windows, the autoexec.sas file can be saved in the %userprofile% directory.

    Note 2: To get rid of the obsolete Output window when using only ODS-style outputs, add this line to autoexec.sas:

    dm "Output; winclose";