Re: QMQRY CL Parameter

It's an error in the manual - make the following change

VALUE('' *TCAT

should be

VALUE('''' *TCAT

There was a recent post with a very elegant solution to the quoting problem - 
use a variable in your QMQRY, say, &APOST, and set it to '''' in the SETVAR 
parameter. You use it wherever you need in the SQL statement, so you'd have

WHERE JOB = &APOST&COND1&APOST AND SALARY < &COND2 

and the SETVAR would include SETVAR((&APOST '''')) - that's 4 apostrophes

and the CHGVAR becomes CHGVAR VAR(&CHARJOB) VALUE(&VAR1)

I think that's right   ;-)

HTH
Vern

Original message -------------- 

> 
> Hi, 
> I'm trying to pass a parameter to a QMquery via STRQMQRY and I 
> thought I'd found the solution 
> 
> Figure 66. Test Query SELECT Statement 
> DB2 for AS/400 Query Management 
> 
> 
> Query . . . . . . : SALARYQ3 
> Library . . . . : EXAMPLE 
> Text . . . . . . . : TEST QUERY 
> SEQNBR |...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6.... 
> 000001 SELECT JOB,DEPT,NAME,ID,YEARS,SALARY,COMM 
> 000002 FROM TESTDATA/STAFF 
> 000003 WHERE JOB = &COND1 AND SALARY < &COND2 
> 000004 ORDER BY JOB,SALARY 
> * * * * * END OF SOURCE * * * 
> The CL program in Figure 67 
> > htm> uses the query shown in Figure 66 
> > htm> . 
> 
> Figure 67. CL Program Source File 
> SEU SOURCE LISTING 
> SOURCE FILE . . . . . . . EXAMPLE/SOURCE 
> MEMBER . . . . . . . . . CLPGM 
> SEQNBR*...+... 1 ...+... 2 ...+... 3 ...+... 4 ...+... 5 ...+... 6 ... 
> 100 PGM PARM(&VAR1 &VAR2 &VAR3 &VAR4) 
> 200 DCL &VAR1 *CHAR LEN(6) 
> 300 DCL &VAR2 *CHAR LEN(6) 
> 400 DCL &VAR3 *CHAR LEN(6) 
> 500 DCL &VAR4 *CHAR LEN(10) 
> 600 DCL &CHARJOB *CHAR LEN(10) 
> 700 CHGVAR VAR(&CHARJOB) VALUE('' *TCAT &VAR1 *TCAT '''') 
> 800 STRQMQRY QMQRY(EXAMPLE/SALARYQ3) QMFORM(EXAMPLE/&VAR4) + 
> 900 OUTPUT(&VAR3) + 
> 1000 SETVAR((COND1 &CHARJOB) (COND2 &VAR2)) 
> 1100 ENDPGM 
> 
> 
> 
> * * * * E N D O F S O U R C E * * * * 
> This is at: 
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/index.htm?info/rzala/r 
> zalamsg.html 
> 
> But the CHGVAR above is illegal even though it's in an IBM manual! 
> Anybody any ideas on what I really need to pass a parameter similar to 
> this? I think I need to add a quote either side of the parameter and 
> yet not have the parameter end up in quotes. 
> 
> Regards 
> Ian 
> 
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