User`s guide

Historical Data
Describing Historical Data Section Fields and Buttons
Accessing the Data Export Window Data Export User’s Guide
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Data Type Enables you to specify if you want to export events
(Events button) and/or statistics (Statistics
button) data.
Output Mode Enables you to specify whether to overwrite or
append events and/or statistics data to an output
file for non-ASCII data. For data in ASCII format,
it enables you to create a new output file with the
creation date and time included in the file name.
The toggle button offers the following selections:
• Overwrite — Overwrites the file, data set, or
table you specify in the output field.
• Append — Appends the exported data to the
file, data set, or table you specify in the output
field.
• Date (for ASCII format only) — Creates a new
file with a date and time stamp added to the
file name you specify in the Output File field.
Output File (ASCII)
Data Set (SAS)
Table Name (SQL)
Enables you to provide the name for the output
file, data set, or table to which the data you want
to export is saved.
NOTE
Data Export provides a default name for the Output File/Data Set/Table
Name field, which you can change in the resource file (see Appendix D). For
SAS and SQL formatted data however, the name you provide in the output
field must conform to established naming rules for data sets and tables.
NOTES
If you attempt to overwrite or append data to a nonexistent file, Data Export
creates a new file.
The Append output mode should only be used in a statistics report when you
are exporting the same type and number of attributes.