Abstract for GDDM-PGF Interactive Chart Utility

Preface

• Got a particular chart to draw?
• Want to know what is new and different in Version 2?
• Want to know what the ICU can do?
• Stuck over something?
• Installing or programming with the ICU?
• Cannot remember the name of something?
• Anything else?
• Special note for online users

Part 1. Introduction

• Chapter 1. Introducing the Interactive Chart Utility
• The hardware you need
• The software you need
• The help you need
• Chart examples
• Chapter 2. Learning to use the ICU
• Chapter 3. Learning 1 - Background information
• Background to charts
• What is a chart?
• The chart and the table
• Reading the chart
• Reading the table
• How to draw a chart
• Charts with a computer
• Names to remember
• Names of parts of the chart
• Names of parts of the table
• Data
• Background to ICU panels
• How to use the ICU
• Using the ICU panels
• How to fill in panels
• Traps to avoid
• Five simple rules
• Using this book
• When to read the screen, and when to read the book
• Getting by without the book
• What to do next
• Chapter 4. Learning 2 - Getting your chart
• Get these answers before you start
• Your first chart
• Log on and start the ICU
• Do not read this unless you get stuck
• Ready-made charts
• This is what happened
• What you did
• What you did not do
• What to do next
• Going to try step-by-step charts?
• Your second chart
• Step-by-step charts
• This is what happened
• What you did
• What you did not do
• Chapter 5. Learning 3 - The five steps of chart drawing
• Coping with errors
• Got lost?
• How to use this section
• Step 1: Choose Chart By Example
• Step 2: Get some data and change it
• Changing the data
• Step 3: Ready-made or step-by-step
• Step 4: Add the finishing touches
• Example 1: Removing tick marks using the panels
• Example 2: Removing tick marks using the indexes
• Example 3: Moving the legend
• Moving or changing shape
• Altering the margins
• Example 4: Getting the shape right
• What goes where on the page
• Example 5: Changing the color of the lines or bars
• Step 5: Save the chart so you can load it later
• Chapter 6. Learning 4 - Making the most of the ICU
• Guided tour
• Home Panel, Help and Help Index
• Chart Type
• Data Entry and Import
• 2.2: Data Entry and Manipulation
• 2.3: Long Data Group Names
• 2.4: Data Labels
• 2.5: Data Interpretation
• 2.6: Data Attributes
• 2.7: Data Group Name Attributes
• 2.8: Data Label Attributes
• 2.9: Data Import
• Chart Notes
• Axis Options
• Heading, Legend and Layout
• Multiple Charts
• Printing
• Save, Load, List, Delete, Reset
• Menu Control
• Advanced Directory
• Getting over mistakes
• Understanding the messages
• Mistakes on the panels
• Mistakes on the chart
• Early warning - the Preview Chart goes red
• Messages about files and other gobbledygook messages
• Data entry
• Which panel to use
• Panel 2.1: Data Entry and Initialization - for beginners
• Panel 2.2: Data Entry and Manipulation - for the experienced
• Panel 2.3: Long Data Group Names
• Panel 2.4: Long Data Labels
• Panel 2.5: Data Interpretation - "indexing" and axis problems
• Panel 2.6: Data Attributes - the look of the lines and bars
• Panel 2.7: Data Group Name Attributes - the look of the legend
• Panel 2.8: Data Label Attributes - the look of the x labels
• Panel 2.9: Data Import
• Panel 2.9.1: File view and data definition
• Panel 2.9.2: Data import control
• Panel 2.9.4: Save and load data
• Getting more space
• Missing values
• Data import
• General information
• The stages of data import
• Suitable data
• Telling the ICU what you want
• What is a data definition?
• What is an item?
• Selecting an item
• Importing the data
• Tips
• Defining items
• Long items
• Using PF4 and PF5 with data interchange format files
• Displaying the chart
• Checking and changing the data
• Messages
• Long columns
• Traps
• Missing parts of numbers?
• Fewer data group names than you expected?
• Picked the wrong thing?
• In a muddle?
• Odd characters appearing?
• Getting values from a sequential file
• Getting values from a data interchange format file
• Advanced techniques
• Missing out lines
• Joining columns
• Adding to an existing imported file
• Reusing a data definition
• Transposing data
• Data manipulation
• Editing commands
• Editing example
• Highlighting commands
• Highlighting example
• Arithmetic commands
• Notes on arithmetic
• Arithmetic example
• Words on your chart
• Splitting lines
• Control how the words look using Text Attributes panels
• Legend
• Legend too big for margin
• Legend and heading overlap
• Axis labels - how and where to type them in
• X axis labels
• Y axis labels
• Omitted labels
• Changing the number of labels
• Labels that don't line up
• Positioning axis titles
• Notes
• Typing in notes
• Changing color, type style, and more
• Changing the order of notes
• Changing position, size, proportion, and angle
• Equally spaced notes
• Interactive edit
• The 'SELECT' button
• Position
• Size, height, or width changed with 3 points
• Angle
• Printing and plotting
• Print or plot a chart at the standard size
• Printing GDF files
• Printer colors
• Printing more than one chart
• Plotting colors
• Plotting patterns
• Controlling size, proportion, and position
• Size of print or plot
• Keep the proportions or fill the space
• Position
• Using percentages
• Traps to avoid
• Using rows/columns as units
• Loading and deleting charts
• Getting it back - loading the chart
• Getting rid of it - deleting the chart
• How charts are saved and loaded
• How to save and load
• How to make use of the two parts of your charts
• Listing your charts, symbol sets, and GDFs
• Getting the Advanced Directory
• Getting a list
• Command lines
• Handling the list
• Tips on using the list
• Searching for a chart
• Putting in long descriptions
• Printing charts

Part 2. Reference information

• Chapter 7. Chart types
• Different types of chart
• Bar chart
• Horizontal bar chart
• Histogram
• Scatter plot
• Pie
• Polar charts
• Surface chart
• Table
• Tower
• Venn
• Choosing the right chart for your data
• Time series
• Planned against actual
• Correlation (profile charts)
• Mathematical data
• Scheduling
• Make up of whole
• Comparison
• Frequency
• Overlapping sets
• Presentation material
• Chapter 8. Bar charts
• Different kinds of bar chart
• Vertical bar chart
• Stacked bars
• Overlapping bars
• Horizontal bar chart
• Planned against actual chart
• Bars behind each other
• Floating bars
• Unevenly spaced bars
• Reference and datum lines
• Reference
• Datum
• Difference between the lines
• Special uses
• Values on bars
• Arrangement of bars
• Gaps between bars and bar width
• Tips
• Horizontal charts
• Indexing
• Mixed charts
• Profile charts
• Traps
• Negative values and funny shading
• Example
• Chapter 9. Histograms
• Different kinds of histograms
• Non-shaded histogram
• Histogram with relative data
• Histogram bar - height and area
• First or last value ignored
• Tips
• Reference lines
• Traps
• Funny shading
• Histogram or bar chart
• Example
• Chapter 10. Indexed charts
• Different types of indexed chart
• Type 1
• Not indexed
• Indexed
• Type 2
• Not indexed
• Indexed
• Type 3
• Not indexed
• Indexed
• Type 4
• Not indexed
• Indexed
• Indexing types summary
• How you index a chart
• What you can index
• Chapter 11. Line graphs and scatter plots
• Line graphs
• Scatter plots
• Tips
• Indexing
• Mixed charts
• Markers
• Traps
• Curves
• Reference lines
• Smooth lines
• Linear and log axes
• Linear axes
• Logarithmic axes
• Labeling Logarithmic Axes
• Axis position
• Horizontal axis at the center
• Intersection at 0,0
• Vertical axis at right
• How to change axis position
• Example of a line graph
• Example of a scatter plot with fitted line
• Chapter 12. Mixed charts
• Why mix charts?
• Lines and bars
• Histogram and surface
• Line and histogram
• Bar, histogram, and line
• The charts you can mix and how to do it
• Tips
• Second scale
• Method of drawing
• Traps
• X (EXCLUDE) command causes complete change
• Overlaid bars
• Overwriting by surface charts
• Example
• Chapter 13. Multiple charts
• Different kinds of multiple chart
• All the same size
• Major and minor
• One chart type, several charts
• Superimposed charts
• Charts you can put together on a page
• Creating a multiple chart
• Tips
• Moving the master chart
• Moving notes
• Keep it simple
• Table charts
• Boxes and backgrounds on their own
• Traps
• Unwanted master chart
• Disappearing charts and partial charts
• Notes not appearing
• Nesting problems
• Example
• Chapter 14. Pie charts
• Different kinds of pie chart
• Standard pie chart
• 3-D pie chart
• More than one slice exploded
• Percentage data
• Two pie charts
• Different sizes
• Different labeling methods
• No pies or tiny pies
• Tilt, thickness (3-D effect), and explosion distance
• Tilt of pies away from viewer
• Tilt=20
• Tilt=60
• Thickness of pie compared to size (3-D effect)
• Thickness=15
• Thickness=100
• Movement of exploded slices
• Explosion=20
• Explosion=100
• Tips
• Transposing charts that are the wrong way round
• Emphasis and exploded pies
• Percentage data
• Traps
• Pie charts not shown
• Pie charts the wrong way round
• Message about X AXIS LABELS OMITTED
• Values
• Example
• Chapter 15. Polar charts
• Different kinds of polar chart
• Comparison polar chart
• Curved comparison chart
• Circular line graph
• Circular surface chart
• What goes where
• Tips
• Comparison charts and data of different scales
• Grid lines
• Traps
• Lost an x label or got one more than you want?
• Just one straight line?
• Heading and labels overlap?
• Example
• Chapter 16. Presentation material
• Different kinds of presentation material
• Notes on their own
• Note text attributes (color, size, angle, and the rest)
• Notes and chart together
• Drawing a picture
• Tips
• When to use interactive edit
• Traps
• Disappearing notes
• Height, Width, or Size ?
• Example
• Chapter 17. Surface charts
• Different kinds of surface charts
• Absolute
• Absolute data with mountain range shading
• Absolute data with shading to previous line
• Relative
• Relative data with mountain range shading
• Relative data with shading to previous line
• Profile or correlation chart
• Tips
• Indexing
• Drawing pictures
• Reference lines
• Smooth lines
• Improving data group shapes
• Traps
• Funny shading
• Shading method used
• Example
• Chapter 18. Table charts
• Different kinds of table chart
• Standard table chart
• Highlighting with color
• Rotated table chart
• What goes where
• Tips
• Big is beautiful
• Getting enough room
• Traps
• The y axis
• Gap and line between x slices
• Example
• Chapter 19. Tower charts
• Different kinds of tower chart
• Standard tower chart
• Color differences side by side
• With scale tower
• Tower spacing
• What goes where
• Tips
• Handling the z axis
• Tower shape
• Constant outline to towers
• Changing angle
• Smallest towers at front
• Traps
• Faulty towers
• X axis labels omitted
• Labels among the towers
• Example
• Chapter 20. Venn diagrams
• Kinds of Venn diagram
• Venn diagram
• Vertical Venn diagram
• Tips
• How plotted
• No legend
• Traps
• No chart produced
• Color of spider lines
• Showing data as other types of chart
• Example
• Chapter 21. Tricks, techniques, and tips
• Broken lines
• Shading under line graphs
• Multiple bar sets
• Show the y axis
• Framing the plotting area
• Framing the chart area
• Boxes around anything
• Create a chart background color
• Scheduling charts
• Profile Charts
• For a surface chart
• For a bar chart
• Getting grid lines behind bars
• Pictures
• Table chart instead of a legend
• Your own markers and shading patterns
• Extra shading patterns
• Extra colors
• Chart style defaults
• Exploit the symbol editors
• How to think of your own ways
• Useful techniques
• Graphics tips
• Presentations
• Reports
• Analyses
• Color
• Plotting
• Type styles and text

Appendix A. Introduction

• Where to look

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Appendix C. What is new for Version 2

• Two new ways to create a chart
• A new chart type - table charts
• Putting several charts together
• A new way to get data
• Where to find the new features
• Changes previous users will notice
• Default choice
• Panel color
• Help
• Chart style defaults
• Plot in progress
• Directory of GDDM objects
• Save/load panel
• Handling notes

Appendix D. How to become the local expert

• How the ICU fits into the computer system
• How the ICU prints and plots charts
• When you need nicknames
• Plotter nicknames to put in the defaults file
• Printer nicknames to put in the defaults file
• GDDM defaults that control the ICU
• Where to find the defaults file
• CICS
• IMS
• TSO
• VM/CMS
• Where saved charts are stored and who has access to them
• CICS
• IMS
• TSO
• VM/CMS
• Files suitable for data import
• Data interchange format (DIF) files
• Sequential files
• How and why to use the ICU for programming
• Differences in using the ICU on different terminals
• 3179-G1 and G2 Display Stations
• 3270-PC/G and /GX Work Stations
• 3279 Terminals
• 3278 and 3290 Terminals
• 5080 Work Stations
• 5550 Family Work Stations
• User control
• Using printers
• 3268 Printers
• 4224 Printers
• 4250, 3800-3, and 3820 Printers
• Languages other than English
• Double byte character sets
• Special symbol sets
• Subsystem differences
• CICS
• IMS
• TSO
• VM/CMS
• Using free data
• Handling free data charts
• How to use free data
• Example of using free data
• Using GDF files
• Saving charts as GDF files
• Uses of GDF
• The Advanced Directory as a GDF manager
• How to get extra markers, colors, and patterns

Appendix E. ICU panels

Appendix F. Colors, markers, line types, shading patterns, type styles

• Colors
• Multi-color terminals
• Four color printers
• Seven color printers
• Line types
• Markers for line and polar charts
• Shading patterns
• Type styles
• Spacing
• Vector symbol sets
• Default ICU vector symbol sets
• Special characters

Appendix G. Illustrated glossary

• The picture glossary
• Picture 1
• Picture 2
• The "standard" glossary

Appendix H. Sample data

• Line graph using sample data 2
• Bar chart using sample data 1
• Surface chart using sample data 3
• Pie chart using sample data 4
• Histogram using sample data 5
• Horizontal bar chart using sample data 7
• Polar (comparison) chart using sample data 6
• Tower chart using sample data 1
• Table chart using sample data 1

Appendix I. More GDDM information

• Latest GDDM information
• GDDM publications

Index