Hi List,
Boy oh Boy (or Girl oh Girl) am I having a major understanding problem with
what is on the list tonight.
DVerner posted a good reply but I am not sure everyone comprehends.
Seems to me there is a problem out there in the JDE community about what a
DW is about. I guess that too many people have expectations beyond what DW
controlled programs are all about. There is always World Writer (WW)
supplied by JDE to enable you to interrogate files (with JOIN capabilities)
and IBM's Query as well as IBM's SQL etc etc.
All readers and contributors to this posting, please read the various JDE
User Reference Manuals (we used to call the major one "BASIC"). In almost
every case each JDE module User Reference Guide contains very specific
details about what each DW program can do and what you can change.
In very simple terminology the DW concept is based around an RPG program
that has various parameters that can be passed to it, and you have the
opportunity to influence what data and the sequence of that data that the
program sees. NOTE, however that these variables are very FINITE and very
SPECIFIC. The tough part is that the program may not be able to cope with
the sequence and totalling you want.
If you don't understand what OPNQRYF is capable of then don't look to JDE -
it is (these days) a very basic AS/400 operating system type function - you
need to get up to speed (that is, you need to become technically proficient)
and go and do some IBM based courses.
Regards
Colin HUGILL
(Yes I know I can be a b***ard sometimes)
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Subject: Re: Dream Writer Base File
is
Colin Hugill
Consultant
(World A7.3 cum12)