Suppress Engine/Host Section in Proc Contents

ODS EXCLUDE EngineHost ;

SAS default behavior is for this statement to be in effect only until the next procedure it encounters. To tell SAS to continuously exclude these two objects from the output, add the PERSIST option as follows:

ODS EXCLUDE ATTRIBUTES (PERSIST) ENGINEHOST (PERSIST) ;

This one-line change can be used by most users, regardless of skill level, to easily reduce the amount of output from PROC CONTENTS. It’s something that may be useful in an AUTOEXEC file. To return to the default behavior, issue this command:

ODS SELECT ALL ;

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