Query/400 is an IBM licensed program and a decision support utility that can be used to obtain information from the AS/400* (AS/400*) database. It can obtain information from any database files that have been defined on the system using Operating System/400* (OS/400*) data description specifications (DDS), the OS/400 interactive data definition utility (IDDU), or the IBM* Structured Query Language/400 (DB2 UDB for iSeries*) program.
You use Query to select, arrange, and analyze information (data) stored in one or more database files to produce reports and other data files. You can create your own query definitions and then run them, you can run existing queries that you did not create, or you can even run a default query against a particular database file (using an unnamed query). You determine what data the query is to retrieve, the format of the report, and whether it should be displayed, printed, or sent to another database file.
You can use Query to obtain information from a single file or a combined set of up to 32 files. You can select all the fields, or a few of the fields and organize them as you want them to appear in the type of output chosen. You can have all records in the files included in the output, or you can select only a few to be included, using record selection tests. These and other functions are described in detail later.
This tutorial begins by introducing basic information about Query, and then it introduces all the major tasks (such as creating, displaying, or running query) that can be done using Query, including the data/text merge options that can be used by IBM OfficeVision*, DisplayWrite* 4, and DisplayWrite 5 users.
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