Specifies which locations to search for definitions that were
created by PROC TEMPLATE, as well as the order in which to search for them.
This statement overrides the ODS PATH statement for the duration of the PROC
TEMPLATE step.
- location(s)
- specifies one or more locations to search for definitions
that were created by PROC TEMPLATE. ODS searches the locations in the order
that they appear on the statement. It uses the first definition that it finds
that has the appropriate access mode (read, write, or update) set. Each use
of the PATH statement completely re-establishes the list of paths.
Each location has the following
form:
|
<libname.>item-store <(READ | UPDATE |
WRITE)>
|
- <libname>.item-store
- identifies an item store that contains style definitions,
table definitions, or both.
- (READ | UPDATE | WRITE)
- specifies the access mode for the definition, where
- READ
- provides read-only access.
- WRITE
- provides write access (overwriting an existing definition)
as well as read access.
- UPDATE
- provides update access (adding to the existing definition)
as well as read access.
| Default: |
If you do not use the PATH statement,
PROC TEMPLATE uses the current path list. The path list is set by the ODS
PATH statement (see ODS PATH Statement.)
You can see this list by submitting the following statement:
ods path show; |
| Tip: |
If you want to be able to ignore all user-defined
definitions, keep them in their own item stores so that you can leave them
out of the list of items stores that ODS searches. |
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