RE: QRYDFN

The QRYFILE option, I think, provides this same functionality, but I've never used it for such. I have used the OVRPRTF for QPQUPRFIL so that a query can be printed at a selected printer.

For files, though, whenever I change a file definition, I always just bite the bullet and re-compile it. There's a neat utility (DSPQRYF) that I found at System i Network that can be run against all of the queries in a library (or selected queries/sets) that puts all of the file information in an outfile that can then be, you guessed it, queried. There was a change to some part of the *QRYDFN object from V5R3 to V5R4 that necessitated a change to the utility. Which is one of the gotchas with using some utilities like this; I don't know if the author (Jeff Yanoviak) posted the change or not (doesn't look like it from the article description).

There is another one (DSPQRYREF) at MCPressOnline.

I don't see an API that would provide information about a *QRYDFN object, but I've missed more than one so there might be.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:00 PM
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Subject: RE: QRYDFN

If all you want to do is use the same file structure in a different
library, you could use a CL to override your file with an OVRDBF but you
would need to know the file being used by every query you wanted to
override.
The CL would be:

PGM
OVRDBF FILE(File referenced in query) TOFILE(new library/new
filename)
RUNQRY QRY(query name)
ENDPGM



John Arnold
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Hi Guys,

Is it possible to programmatically change the file selection library in
a
*QRYDFN?

We have hundreds of queries where a file library needs to change....

I have done passing parms to a QMQRY but these are existing *QRYDFN

Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks

Kind regards,

Prevesh Kuni
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