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Re: BIG Query Question

It is not just queries. It is ANY software that you have added, that runs off of the file layout that existed before the vendor upgrade. The software may bomb if the file layout is a later edition than when the software was created.
The issue includes how complex the file changes of the application. Sometimes the data is rearranged (stored in which file names), and what you can do with join files is not same as simple logicals. File lengths can change. Field lengths can change.
With FOXTROT and various keyboard scripting tools, usually intended for testing software, you can automate a keying process. e.g. open WRKQRY for a particular library, go thru entire list of Query/400, for each and every one, 2 open then F3 close & save. Once you have the script written, the computer takes care of the tedious work.
Yes, some queries will now have errors due to the file layout changes, so you want FOXTROT or whatever to not mess with them, give you audit trail of the exceptions. I think that is included in the state of art.
Thanks for the Tool. I have a dump to *OUTFILE for our Query descriptions then sort on that, to provide a directory of what we have, as a question often comes up "Do we have a query to do X?" 

Plus there is the related issue (for us) of
Person Y runs some update regularly which generates some audit trail, that gets moved around 
Person Z wants to know the last time it got run and where the report it


Hi Folks,



Our main application vendor is installing new update this weekend and files
are changing.



We have a TON of queries that reference these files and if a file they use
had changed, the query will bomb of course.



So is there any way to force the save of a query without going into it and
doing that ?



Thanks !



Chuck

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