Re: WRKQRY question ...

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think Simon @ rpgpgm.com showed a way to document queries. Check it out.

Art

On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 5:47 PM Michael Mayer via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Good day all. I happened to run into a developer conversation today about
> the WRKQRY command that
> I found interesting. These guys were trying to figure out if there was a
> way to kick out all wrkqry's and QM query's
> to an outfile and then be able to run a query over the outfile to show the
> WRKQRY printer device.
>
> I ran this and couldn't find it.
> DSPOBJD OBJ(QGPL/ECOPENORDS) OBJTYPE(*QRYDFN *QMQRY) DETAIL(*SERVICE)
> OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) OUTFILE(QRYLIB/TESTFILE).
>
> My mind went blank trying to figure it out. Maybe an SQL could pull that
> info out but I'm not
> sure what to run.
>
> I see it if I print out a WRKQRY definition - sample below:
>
> Selected output attributes
>   Output type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Printer
>   Form of output  . . . . . . . . . . . . Summary only
>   Line wrapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . No
> Printer Output
>   Printer device  . . . . . . . . . . . . ABCD1234     *---------
>   Report size
>     Length  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  66 (default)
>     Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
>
> The IBM i community is amongst the smartest group of creative people I
> know of.
> Any idea's to jumpstart my brain would be appreciated.
> MM
>
>
> Respectfully,
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