In reply to Chris Hemedinger.

Thanks for the quick response, Chris. I'm not terribly familiar with inner workings of ODS but I can poke around. As an aside, do you happen to know if it's possible to force the sgplot approach to plot the left side of the y-axis in a specific ordering (say alphabetically by country name, in this example)? I have presorted my data in the order I want it displayed but the sgplot approach seems to be reordering the y-axis based on the average value of each series (I want it to instead be chronological).