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 figure 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: Reference.

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