Re: Call Query

[Alan Addison <ahaddison@xxxxxxxx>]

When you work with a software company that has companies from verrrrry small to
large as clients, one can not "force" them to do anything they don't want to.
So one has to deal with what you know will work on all machines.

Alan

rob@dekko.com wrote:

> 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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> >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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