SAS/ACCESS Interface to IMS-DL/I Software

Charting Data

GCHART procedure programs work with data described by view descriptors just as they do with other SAS data sets. The following example creates a horizontal bar chart of the number of checking account withdrawals per day. This example uses the view descriptor VLIB.CDBTDATE to describe the CHCKDEBT segment of the ACCTDBD database:

options nodate linesize=132;
goptions device=chardrvw;

proc gchart data=vlib.cdbtdate;
   vbar check_date / discrete;
   title2 'Checking Account Withdrawals Per Day';
run;

Vertical Bar Chart of Checking Account Withdrawals shows the output for this example. CDBTDATE represents the date of each checking account withdrawal; the number of checking account withdrawals is represented by the length of the bar. For more information on the GCHART procedure, see SAS Language Reference: Concepts and the SAS Procedures Guide.

Vertical Bar Chart of Checking Account Withdrawals

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If you have SAS/GRAPH software, you can create colored block charts, plots, and other graphics based on IMS-DL/I data. See SAS/GRAPH Software: Reference for more information on the kinds of graphics that you can produce with this SAS product.

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