Re: Query conversion

[email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James W Kilgore)]

Dan,

There was a post on this list or the RPG400-L that asked for shareware.

Well it just so happens that we "feel your pain" <g> and finally wrote a
OPNQRYF front end that looks like the OPNQRYF "Select records" panel. 
We have to support V3R2 so it's in plain jane RPG400 but it gets us by.

The upshot is that we have decided to include what we have as
shareware.  We should "modernize" it up to snuff because it uses a built
PF for a field list instead of an API.

Want to start a GNU style project?

Dan Bale wrote:
> 
> My experience trying to reproduce Query's printed output using RTVQMQRY,
> RTVQMFORM, CRTQMFORM, CRTQMQRY, and STRQMQRY has usually left me exasperated 
>to
> the point where I just finally throw up my hands and re-do the whole thing 
>using
> OPNQRYF to get the data, and feed it into an RPG report program to print the
> dang thing.

Like a "real" programmer would <g>


  Note that the only reason I'd ever do this is because a user
> requires a front-end data selection prompt to select the data to print on the
> report.  Otherwise, I'd just stick with using Query.
>
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