Date:         Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:12:02 -0400
Reply-To:     Jonathan Goldberg <jgoldberg@BIOMEDSYS.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jonathan Goldberg <jgoldberg@BIOMEDSYS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Combining ODS tables from repeated proc runs Solved

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:01:07 -0400, Jonathan Goldberg
<jgoldberg@BIOMEDSYS.COM> wrote:

>Using SAS 9.1.3 on Windows XP Pro I've been trying to combine several proc
>ttest output data sets into one.  The basic setup is:
>
>ods output statistics = mystats;
>proc ttest1
>proc ttest2
>proc ttest3
>ods output close;
>
>What I want is the output from all three procs concatenated into one data
>set.
>
>I've tried various permutations of output options and positioning of
>output statements.  In each case all I got was the output from the last
>proc run.
>
>The "old" way, ods output statistics(match_all = dslist), got me a message
>saying that match_all is no longer necessary.
>
>This can't be hard; I must be missing something simple.  Would someone
>please tell me what.
>
>TIA.
>
>Jonathan

My thanks to all who answered.  The "persist" option does what is
required.  I had tried "persist = run", following the documentation.  I
had not tried persist by itself.  Oh well.