Re: Query management forms -- MIDRANGE-L

Dean HAS no form to put an &field into. In his OP, he is talking about the *SYSDFT option on the form parameter of STRQMQRY. There is no way I know of to specify your own heading for that - it has none.

I have a query (sic) in to IBM Support to see if there is some way to do this without generating your own QMFORM source on the fly - and THAT is not, IMO, the way to go. Just do a RTVQMFORM sometime against, say, a QRYDFN - yes, you can do that - and llok at the source. Almost all of it is required in order to create a form.

Peter Dow wrote:

Hi Dean,

Another sort of clunky way would be to construct the variable part of the heading, pass it as a parameter to the QM query, and include it as a field and just don't print it with the detail. Then you can refer to it in the QM form heading as &field. It might perform better than doing all the copying.

*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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On 1/25/2010 12:24 PM, Dean.Eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Vern, you are correct about my requirements. Thanks for the tip regarding
the Print text parameter. I hadn't noticed that before.

The only other option I thought of was to utilize the User defined data
parameter and have the SQL command processing program copy the spool file
to a DB file and then read it and add the User defined data as the heading
on each page. This is a long way around to get what I want, but I think
it would work. I guess I'm not sure what the performance would be though.

Dean Eshleman,
MMA, Inc.

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:41:59 -0600, in midrange.midrange-l you wrote:

Yes, but Dean wants a dynamic layout, the same as the default but with
his own report heading.

I don't think this can be done - too bad.

You might try saying *YES to date/time and page numbers, which go on the
bottom of the page. And for some report description, use the print text
parameter of OVRPRTF QPQXPRTF

HTH
Vern

Carel Teijgeler wrote:

Dean,

STRQM option 1
Edit a query
Press F13 and you can edit your FORM

You can add variables in your heading by referencing the number of the
column in the result set. (so it should be in the SELECT)

Thus "Client:&6" refers to the sixth column in the result set.

You can leave the same column out of the result set by selecting the

first

option and use the option OMIT.

This was a quick "101"

With regards,
Carel Teijgeler

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On 22-1-2010 at 16:49 Dean.Eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,

We have an interactive SQL command that utilizes a query management

query

to execute the SQL statement. When we specify *PRINT as our output, I

would like to be able to specify a report heading. I assume this

would

require using a query management report form. Our SQL command allows

you

to specify the form to use. Normally, we use the *SYSDFT value.

According

to the help on STRQMQRY this means it creates a form on the fly and

uses

that. Does anyone know how to define a form where the heading would

be a

variable and the columns would be determined at runtime? Do I need to

figure out how to create the form on the fly myself? I have looked at

the

Query Management Programming manual, it isn't apparent to me what I

need

to do. TIA

Dean Eshleman,
MMA, Inc.

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