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From: Brian Wade, IBM, bkw at us dot ibm dot com

The TAB2GC ("Table to Google Chart") tool is a CMS application that can draw charts. The input is a flat CMS file describing one or more charts to be drawn. The output is a file of HTML containing JavaScript that invokes the Google Visualization API. Feed the HTML file into a browser and the browser will draw the charts.

The real power here is that TAB2GC is a CMS application that takes a CMS file as input and produces a CMS file as output. That CMS input file could have been built by any CMS application that scrapes up numbers somehow from somewhere. Consider for example this:

1. MONWRITE file + Perfkit = a Perfkit listing
2. Perfkit listing + a custom scraper = a TAB2GC input file
3. TAB2GC input file + TAB2GC EXEC = an HTML file
4. HTML file + a CMS-based web server = your charts

All of that can be done without manual intervention. No more cutting and pasting CMS-born numbers into a spreadsheet just so you can make a chart of them. Everything you need done can be done on CMS.

View the presentation here.

Download the package here.

To learn how to process VMARC files, read here.

Enjoy,
Brian Wade, Mar 2021