Re: edit a *QRYDFN query outside of WRKQRY interface?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan

In addition to RTVQMQRY there is RTVQMFORM, which gives you something very 
close to the QRYDFN output. QRYDFNs can be seen as the combination of the 
data extraction and the presentation, whereas QMQRY is only extraction and 
QMFORM is presentation. Results are usually pretty good.

One nice thing, IMO, about QMQRY output is that it creates multiple sets of 
spooled files when the report width is greater than the PRTF width.

For maintenance, users can use STRQM. There is a part of it (opt 10?) that 
lets you configure what users can do - whether they can only run in batch, 
for example, which many have asked about in Query/400, is doable in STRQM. 
Also, where their queries go. And whether they can change things.

And the interface can be very much like Query/400 - they just need to use 
F13 to toggle between queries and forms. Or SQL for the queries.

Vern

At 08:20 AM 6/27/2003 -0700, you wrote:
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> Also, some of the queries I support eventually get maintained by endusers, 
> so that precludes QM
> queries right there.  Besides, if I *really* had my druthers (and had to 
> choose between qmqry and
> sql), I'd just convert the *qrydfn's to SQL.  Our shop is on a path to 
> learning SQL beyond simple
> selects, as I hear the next Lawson version is heavy on SQL.
>
> Bill, you are so right on with the ugly qmqry output.  In the past, I have 
> had to change a working
> *qrydfn to a qmqry, and the users hated it so much it ended up getting 
> trashed for an RPG program!
>
> Thanks for the suggestions!
>
> - Dan