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All the more reason to avoid OPNQRYF. There is no ease of maintenance.
Instead use SQL. People who stick with OPNQRYF belong to one of few
categories.
1) Work for cheap company which refuses to buy SQL.
2) Create vendor software with mandate not to force customers to purchase
SQL. (When they've already had to purchase 400, rpg compiler, etc.)
3) Have no s*e*x life and last conquest was figuring out OPNQRYF.
4) Love to use primary files and can do that if they use OPNQRYF instead
of SQL.
Rob Berendt
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D.BALE@handleman.
com To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Sent by: cc:
owner-rpg400-l@mi Subject: Re: Call Query
drange.com
10/23/00 10:50 AM
Please respond to
RPG400-L
>But the report does not use the formatting that was
>set up in Query/400. Is it possible to use that
>formatting?
Unfortunately, AFAIK, no.
>If not, is there an easy way to make a
>QMFORM for the QMQRY?
Easy?!?!? No! QMQRY, IMNSHO, is a piece of cr*p as far as being able to
make
decent-looking reports. The only way I would not just do all this using
OPNQRYF / RPG would be if there was already a query out there, and the
user/boss wanted the absolute quickest & dirtiest way to get it done *AND*
understood that the report isn't gonna look all that great.
You gotta look at this from a maintenance perspective, too. Even if you
are
able to muddle your way through this, is somebody down the line going to
have
to maintain it? Are they going to look at the cryptic source and wonder
what
the h*ll possessed you to do this?
If you want a quick way to do nice-looking reports quickly using RPG and
hate
using IBM's RLU (Report Layout Utility), get a copy of RDA (Report Design
Aid)
- it looks and feels just like SDA and it's a heckuva lot easier to use
than
RLU. You'll be cranking out good-looking reports in no time.
Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400 Ext. 4952
-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
> Click the link below
>
http://as400service.rochester.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/$searchform?Open&vie
w=w
> all
> In the search field write :
>
> Passing Parameters to a Query/400 Query
>
> The basic idea of the solution is in the select statement to write in the
> Select part:
>
> DATE GE :FROMDAT
>
> // Yes the : has to be there
>
> Save the query as normal i.e. a QRYDFN object.
>
> Run the Query with STRQMQRY and ALWQRYDFN(*YES) and set the variables in
> SETVAR
>
> I.e. in the above case:
>
> StrQmQry QmQRy(yourlib/yourqry) AlwQryDfn(*YES)
> QmForm(*QMQRY) SetVar((FROMDAT 19991122))
This is a great tip! But the report does not use the formatting that was
set
up
in Query/400. Is it possible to use that formatting? If not, is there an
easy
way to make a QMFORM for the QMQRY?
Or is the answer RTFM? ;-)
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