Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Query/400 vs QM Query vs Db2 Web Query and text wrapping

Hi Alan,

Because the end result is a form on a piece of paper that the user can fill out.

To create a PDF that's a fillable form would a) take more effort than just CPYSPLF, and b) require users to be carrying around a tablet or something in order to fill it out.

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On 7/27/2020 10:40 AM, Alan Shore via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

Hi
Why not just generate a spool file and use CPYSPLF and generate a pdf into the ifs from this spool file?

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Query/400 vs QM Query vs Db2 Web Query and text wrapping

Hi John,

You are of course correct in that this should be done another way.
Python seems to be your "hammer" :) but for this customer I think a better solution is probably to use Acom to generate a form, which is what the intent seems to be with this query -- each input record prints
18 lines on the report, with vertical bars and hyphens to make a sort of form for users to fill in manually.

I've found that I can reproduce it by concatenating all the required fields and characters into one giant field which then uses the CW edit code in QM query to print it on multiple lines.  At least that works ok when the files are all local.  But when they are DDM files pointing to a remote system, one glaring issue is VARCHAR_FORMAT() does not work.

This is apparently an SQL bug, not something specific to QM Query.

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On 7/24/2020 8:01 PM, John Yeung wrote:

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 5:01 PM Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What I would like is a way within QM Query to wrap a record at the
page width, but keep the additional lines within the same spool file.

Has anyone else run into this and found a solution?

I don't mean to sound glib, but my "solution" is to use other tooling.
In my case, it would be Python. And most of the users I've encountered
would rather receive Excel workbooks than printed reports.

John Y.

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