RE: QM/400 vs Query/400

V4R4M0 & fairy current on "all" the various individual, group, & cume ptf's.

About a week ago I posed the question about converting Query/400 queries to
the QMQRY format.  Simon, Dan, Vanja, & others supplied some good advice.  

I created a CL program to do the RTVQMQRY, RTVQMFORM, CRTQMQRY, & CRTQMFORM.
This process worked in roughly 98% of the conversion & actually did a good
job.

The one thing that Query/400 would let you do was to edit a numeric defined
field as a date field.  Anybody that runs 6.0.02 BPCS knows how dates are
defined.  This did not convert via the RTVQMxxxx commands.  When I edit this
QMQRY, it lets me define the numeric field as a date field.  When the query
is run, an error occurs that tells me I have an invalid edit code for a
numeric field & I sure do.

The two QM manuals don't address this capability (flaw) that Query/400
allowed.  The one thing that might complicate things is that this "date"
field is also a "break" field?

The one thought I had was to create a "new" table.  The book says (& I
quote), "The only way to change the definition of an existing table is to
copy it.----When you copy the table, you can copy, delete, & add columns, &
change definitions in the same way as if you were creating a new table."

It seems my only recourse is to create a copy of the table (LLH), redefine
the data field to a date data type, & run the QMQRY from this table.

Is there something I am missing?????   Thanks for your input.

Dennis

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be
done." -- Marie Curie 
"I love deadlines.  I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they
go flying by."  Dilbert's Words Of Wisdom:

Dennis Munro    
Badger Mining Corporation
dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com <mailto:dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com> 
(920) 361-2388


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