Queries Reports run from menu options

["Born, Barbara K" <bkb236w@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello:

I am looking for ways to run queries from menu options.  The queries
exist in query manager and I'm using the query management command of
strqmqry inside a CL program.  The CL program is run from a CMD program.
There are variables that are chosen from the display screen that need to
be passed using the SETVAR parameter.  As long as the variables are in
character upper-case format there are no problems.  If the variables
need to be a numeric or mixed case or all lower-case, there are no rows
found. Also, the SETVAR can only be a total of 55 characters and
sometimes the titles are 60 characters or the combination of passed
parameters totals to more than 60 characters.

Are there other approaches to running queries from a menu?  Do I need to
write a HHL program to accomplish this feat?

The current CL program looks like:

                                                                
  PGM        PARM(&VLNAME &VFNAME)                              
                                                                
             DCL        VAR(&MSGID) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(7)          
             DCL        VAR(&MSGDTA) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(128)       
             DCL        VAR(&VLNAME) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(15)        
             DCL        VAR(&VFNAME) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(15)        
             DCL        VAR(&NAME_LAST) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(23)     
             DCL        VAR(&NAME_FIRST) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(23)    
                                                                
/**********************************************************************
/*     Enclose the variables in quotes                                 
/**********************************************************************
                                                                       
CORRECTV:    CHGVAR     VAR(&NAME_LAST) VALUE('''' *CAT &VLNAME *CAT
'''')
             CHGVAR     VAR(&NAME_FIRST) VALUE('''' *CAT &VFNAME *CAT
'''')
                                                                       
/**********************************************************************
/*     Process the query, format and send to printer or display        
/**********************************************************************
                                                                       
 PROCQUERY:  STRQMQRY   QMQRY(MYLIB/QUERY1) SETVAR((NAME_LAST +      
                          &NAME_LAST) (NAME_FIRST &NAME_FIRST))        
 ENDPGM


Barbi Born      
Southwest Missouri State University     
Springfield, MO
Bkb236w@xxxxxxxx