Scheduling

If you want certain time periods included and others not included on the graph, you can use a combination of the schedule and dates features. The /SCHEDULE qualifier, and the schedule time clocks in the window interface, allow you to specify desired hours on a weekly basis for inclusion on the graph. If you need more specific selection time frames, you can use a DATES file (see the /DATES qualifier), which specifies an unlimited number of date ranges, to indicate the desired time frames for inclusion in the graph.

You may want to use both the /DATES qualifier and the /SCHEDULE qualifier together. For example, if you need a graph depicting an average Monday through Thursday prime time for the first week of September, October, November and December of 2005, your schedule and dates file would be as follows:

MYDATES.DAT:
07-SEP-2005,11-SEP-2005
05-OCT-2005,09-OCT-2005
02-NOV-2005,06-NOV-2005
07-DEC-2005,11-DEC-2005

To use this dates file

Enter a command similar to the following:

$ ADVISE PERFORMANCE GRAPH/SCHEDULE=(NOWEEKENDS,WEEKDAYS=(9-12 -,

_$ 14-17),NOFRIDAY)/DATES=MYDATES.DAT/AVERAGE=WEEKLY