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From: Andrew Karp Sierra Info Services on 9 Jul 2010 03:02
This evening I fired up my brand new copy of SAS EG 4.2 (SAS 9.22) to
try and figure out the answer to your question about why you get yoru
actual values plotted but not the forecast values.

I ran some forecasts using EG on a time series data set I have and
then looked at the SASLOG results. Here is what I found:

1) When you request a plot of the actual (historical) series, EG runs
the series through PROC SORT (we saw that in the code snip you posted
on Thursday) and out to a temp. data set. THEN EG plots those values
using PROC GPLOT, which is part of the SAS/GRAPH module, so that
aspect of the process runs as long as you have SAS/GRAPH and even if
you don't have the ETS module installed.

2) Depending on the forecasting options you select in the EG menus,
SAS then tries to run various ETS procedures to create the forecasts,
which are then stored in new temp. SAS data sets. The EG then tries
to plot those values generated by the forecasting procedure, again
using PROC GLPLOT, but since you don't have the module with the right
procs (or at least you didn't when you posted your query), EG could
not carry out the forecasts and therefore had nothing to plot for you.

Hope this makes sense. This is why it is often helpful for EG users
to have an experience SAS programmer look at their SASLOGs to help
figure out where errors/problems might lie.

Thanks,

Andrew Karp
Sierra Information Services
http://www.sierrainformation.com


On Jul 8, 12:17 pm, Greg <sasgrou...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks again Andrew,
>
> They are starting to respond to me again ....I think I finally have
> one who is going to be able to help me

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