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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:TAEC::BEROUD
Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

2013.0. "Graphing historical data?" by TAEC::HARPER (John Harper, DTN 830 3647) Tue Dec 31 1991 12:31

    I'm trying to get a graph showing historical data.  I have a record of
    the counters (for a line on my workstation) every minute.
    
    The documentation for graphing is sparse, to say the least. However, I
    have tried to do the obvious thing, using the "operation time" window
    to set the start (a few minutes after recording started) and the
    interval (every ten minutes).  I then ask for a graph of a couple of
    the counters I've been recording.
    
    I get an empty graph.
    
    What am I doing wrong?
    
    Incidentally I find the whole "operation time" mechanism extremely hard
    to use.  Having got it all set up, I then wanted to check what I'd been
    recording, using "show recording".  This said "information not
    available for the time requested", which puzzled me until I realised it
    was trying to show the recording at the time I'd requested for the
    show.  This is not enormously helpful!
    
    In particular, it would be nice if the information graphed could be
    determined from the graph window itself, without having to mess with
    the operation time. (Maybe it can... but I'm #%#ed if I can find it if
    so).
    
    	John
    
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2013.1Yes, it is very difficult to graph historical time with the real time graph.TOOK::A_MOOREThu Jan 02 1992 18:4824
Yes, it is difficult to graph historical time with the realtime graph.

Using DECgraph or DECdecision is more satisfactory.  They are the  best 
recommendation for historical data graphing.


To use the real time  graph for historical data pull down

		Operation Time 
		scope of interest 
		absolute 
	Set a start time in the past 
	Set a Duration that does not cross the current time (NOW barrier)
	Stretch the window to be wide to see more of the data.

Historical data graphing could implemented in future versions.


Also on the list of futures is making a simple time window that is friendly for
the commonly desired simple uses of time.
 
Please help document any income opportunities these features would  provide.

Al Moore