Re: Selecting Specific Member in MSQuery

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First the Caveat:  I don't use MS products at all.

Don't you have to connect to the 400 to use ODBC?  And doesn't that connection 
start a job on the 400 that 
persists until you disconnect?  And doesn't ODBC support a CALL interface (SQL 
CALL also known as stored 
procedures)?  So can't you run something like?

CALL QCMDEXC ("OVRDBF FILE(PERFDATA) TOFILE(PERFDATA) TOMBR(CURRENT)", 
X'000000005200000F')
SELECT * FROM PERFDATA

Or is the real problem that MS Query won't let you control the SQL statements 
so you don't get a chance to 
run the override?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 99 14:42:51 -0600
> From: "Roger Pence" <rp@rogerpence.com>
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Selecting Specific Member in MSQuery

> 
> John--
> 
> >   I currently use Excel (with MS Query) to retrieve data from the /400 to
> create performance graphs.  I currently have a routine that copies the data
> out to a work library so that I only have one member per performance data
> file.  Is there a better way?  Is there a way so select a member within the
> SQL that MS Query generates?
> 
> You're outta luck here. ODBC drive SQL syntax doesn't support members.
> Unless you're writing to the API set, you also can't do an override because
> the override must be done within the same job as the SQL calls. Logical
> files are pretty much your best alternative.
> 
> The only ODBC driver I've seen that supported members was ShowCase's ODBC
> driver and they have long since pulled it from shrinkwrapped distribution
> (dumb, huh?).
> 
> rp
> 
> 
> 
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