What You Need to Know

This chapter describes and gives examples of how to generate plot reports using the PLOT, PLOT2, VPLOT, VPLOT2, MPLOT, and HPLOT commands.

Plot reports plot the value of a variable for a group of resources either against time or against another variable. Plot reports fall into three categories:

Horizontal plot reports, generated by the PLOT and PLOT2 commands, plot a variable horizontally across time.
Vertical plot reports, generated by the VPLOT, VPLOT2, and MPLOT commands, plot a variable vertically across time.
Distribution plot reports plot one variable on the vertical axis and another on the horizontal axis. The HPLOT command used with either the VPLOT or the MPLOT command generate these plots.

Understand the following:

Report Writer commands
Descriptions of Report Writer variables and lists of the ID options you can use with each class of variable
Descriptions of ID options and their use with commands and variables

More information:

Commands

ID Options

Variables