IBM ISERIES SC41-5210-04 - Manual (Page 101)

Select and Sequence Fields
Type sequence number (0-9999) for the names of up to 500 fields to
appear in the report, press Enter.
Seq Field Seq Field
10 COMPANY ____ BALDUE
20 ACCTNUMBER ____ DATELASTPD
30 PASTDUE ____ CURRENTDAT
____ FIRSTNAME ____ YEAR
____ MIDDLEINIT ____ MONTH
____ LASTNAME
____ STREETADDR
____ CITY
____ STATE
____ ZIPCODE
____ TELENUMBER
____ CRLIMIT
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F3=Exit F5=Report F11=Display text F12=Cancel
F13=Layout F20=Renumber F21=Select all F24=More keys
You could then select the remaining fields for output on the report by pressing F21 (Select all). Query
would then select and supply sequence numbers for the remaining fields in the order that they appeared in
the list.
Select and Sequence Fields
Type sequence number (0-9999) for the names of up to 500 fields
to appear in the report, press Enter.
Seq Field Seq Field
10 COMPANY 130 BALDUE
20 ACCTNUMBER 140 DATELASTPD
30 PASTDUE 150 CURRENTDAT
40 FIRSTNAME 160 YEAR
50 MIDDLEINIT 170 MONTH
60 LASTNAME
70 STREETADDR
80 CITY
90 STATE
100 ZIPCODE
110 TELENUMBER
120 CRLIMIT
Bottom
F3=Exit F5=Report F11=Display text F12=Cancel
F13=Layout F20=Renumber F21=Select all F24=More keys
Another way of making your selections is to first specify the same sequence number (a 1, for example) for
all of the fields you want to select. Press the Enter key, and Query pulls all of those fields to the top of the
list. You can then specify new sequence numbers to arrange the fields in the order you want for your
report. This is particularly useful when there are too many fields to appear on a single display.
Query has the ability to show you additional information about the fields in the list area of the display. If
only the field names are shown in the list and you press F11, you see the descriptive text, the length, and
the decimal positions for the fields. For more information on using F11, see “Using F11 to display
additional information about Query for iSeries queries” on page 15. You can also display a long comment
(if one exists) for a field (or display the expression defining a result field) by moving the cursor to that field
and pressing F23.
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