Re: Interactive Display of QMQry with passed variables -- MIDRANGE-L

SETVARs are case-sensitive - be sure that the variable is &Q and not&q in the QMQRY source. Someone said that lowercase variables willalways prompt. This is true if you do not force them to lowercase inSTRQMQRY - remember, a lowercase value without apostrophes isactually uppercase when passed.


Consider this example:

select * from &l/&f

in a QMQRY called SETVARCASE

STRQMQRY QMQRY(SETVARCASE) SETVAR((l 'QIWS') (f 'QCUSTCDT'))

will prompt you. Actually, the SETVAR elements you specified areignored because they do not match the names in the QMQRY. However, consider


STRQMQRY QMQRY(SETVARCASE) SETVAR(('l' 'QIWS') ('f' 'QCUSTCDT'))

which does not prompt you.

Actually, the command help is wrong in this matter. Here is what it says:

Because lower-case characters in variable names are changed toupper-case characters when passed to the command processing program,you cannot use this parameter to set values for variables with mixedcase names.


But try this

select * from &Library/&File

in a QMQRY called TSTMXDCASE.

Then use

strqmqry tstmxdcase setvar(('Library' 'qiws') ('File' 'qcustcdt'))

which works fine. So the rule is not, they must be uppercase in theQMQRY, the rule is that the case must match. It's just a little moreerror-free to use uppercase in the QMQRY. But you get lots moreflexibility with mixed-case. Of course, you only have 50 to use anyway. ;-)


HTH
Vern

At 04:49 PM 9/26/2005, you wrote:

   Hello,

   I've been searching IBM info center,and the list archive for a few hours
   now, and I can't see if what I want to do can be done.

   I have a QMQry that has parms passed to it.  CL is as follows.

                DCL        VAR(&Var1) +
                            TYPE(*CHAR) +
                            LEN(9)

                DCL        VAR(&Q) +
                            TYPE(*CHAR) +
                            LEN(1) +
                            VALUE('''')

                STRQMQRY   QMQRY(NameOQry) +
                            QMFORM(*QMQRY) +
                            SETVAR((Variable1 &Var1) (q &q))

   The Var1 is passed to the program as character.

   What I want is for the qry to run with the passed  parms, but when it is
   run in an interactive job, I get prompted for the variables Var1, and
   'Q'.

   Anyone know how to make it use the passed parms with running
   interactively?

   Thanks!


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