Which of the following is NOT a property of the SORT procedure?

The property that is NOT associated with the SORT procedure is generating printed output. The SORT procedure focuses primarily on organizing data by one or multiple variables and creating sorted datasets. While it allows for sorting in ascending or descending order and can create new datasets with the sorted information, it does not have a built-in feature for producing printed output to the display or reports directly. Instead, if you want to see the sorted results, you would typically follow the SORT procedure with a PRINT procedure to display the output in a readable format.

The other options reflect properties of the SORT procedure: it can sort data by multiple variables, sort in descending order, and produce a new dataset based on the sorted values, but generating printed output is not one of its integral functionalities.