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When I started to write this email, I realized I'm not sure of the
current naming for IBM i's query products.
Near as I can tell Query/400 refers to WRKQRY, RUNQRY, etc., QM Query
refers to STRQM, STRQMQRY, etc. and I have no experience with Db2 Web query.
On a 7.3 IBM i, under installed licensed software, I see 5770QU1 IBM
Query for i. I don't know what this includes.
My real question involves a difference in how Query/400 queries and QM
queries format their reports.
In Query/400, it is possible for one selected record to print on
multiple lines on the same page. For example, if a record contains a
name, address lines, city, state, zip and phone#, it is possible for the
query to print
Name
Address Line1
Address Line2
City, State Zip
800-555-1212
all on the same page in a single spool file.
Trying to do the same in QM query results in multiple spool files.
Reading the Query Management Programming manual (SC41-5703), when
working on column formatting, the edit codes for a character column
include CW says
"Makes no change in the display of a value, but if the value cannot fit
on one line in the column, query management wraps the text according to
the width of the column. That is, instead of truncating the data at the
end of the column, query management puts as much data as possible on one
line in the column and then continues the data on the next line in the
column."
Not exactly the same thing, but close. To do the same thing as
Query/400, I would have to concatenate all the fields into one, then use
the CW edit code. That means I lose a lot of ability to format
individual fields.
What I would like is a way within QM Query to wrap a record at the page
width, but keep the additional lines within the same spool file.
Has anyone else run into this and found a solution?
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