IMS Data in SAS Programs

Charting IMS Data

GCHART procedure programs work with data that is 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;

The following graphic 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 about the GCHART procedure, see SAS Language Reference: Concepts and the SAS/GRAPH Software: Reference, Volumes 1 and 2.

Results of Charting IMS Data

[Results of Charting IMS Data]

If you have SAS/GRAPH software, you can create colored block charts, plots, and other graphics based on IMS data. See SAS/GRAPH Software: Reference, Volumes 1 and 2 for more information about the kinds of graphics that you can produce with this SAS product.

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