A Better Way to Get Query/400 Definitions?

May 31, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hey, Ted:

I am writing in response to your article, “Print Query Defintions from a Batch Job” that was published in the May 22 issue of Midrange Guru, OS/400 Edition.

A better solution is to use the Retrieve Query Management Query (RTVQMQRY) command, which works fine for a Query/400 definition (*QRYDFN object).

This puts the output into a source file that can be manipulated with a program.

See the following example:

PGM        PARM(&LIBRARY)

   DCL        VAR(&LIBRARY) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10)
   DCLF       FILE(DSPOBJD)

   CLRPFM     FILE(RTVQRYOUT)
   DSPOBJD    OBJ(&LIBRARY/*ALL) +
      OBJTYPE(*QRYDFN) +
      OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) +
      OUTFILE(QTEMP/DSPOBJD)
   OVRDBF     FILE(QTXTSRC) +
      TOFILE(QGPL/QTXTSRC) +
      MBR(RTVQRYTMP)
LOOP:
   RCVF       RCDFMT(QLIDOBJD)
   MONMSG     MSGID(CPF0864) +
      EXEC(GOTO CMDLBL(ENDLOOP))
   RTVQMQRY   QMQRY(&ODLBNM/&ODOBNM) +
      SRCFILE(QGPL/QTXTSRC) +
      SRCMBR(RTVQRYTMP) ALWQRYDFN(*YES)
   CALL       PGM(RTVQRY1) PARM(&ODOBNM)
   GOTO LOOP
ENDLOOP:
   ENDPGM

This is what I use. I wrote the RTVQRY1 program to read the QTXTSRC file
which uses my rtvqryout file for my specific output.

— Jay

Thanks for the email. Your code gets the SQL statement that generates the query, preceded by some Query Management definition codes. It does not get the definition you get when you use option 6 of the Work with Queries (WRKQRY) command. What you’re doing is good and useful, but it’s not the same thing that I published.

— Ted

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