Commands you can use on the list of database objects
You can issue the following commands in the Action area
of a list. Type QMF before any command to make sure that the QMF command runs
instead of a command synonym. Your installation might have defined
a command with the same name as a QMF command.
- Command
- What it does
- CONVERT
- Converts a prompted, QBE, or SQL query into an equivalent
SQL query- the comments in the original query do not appear in the
converted query
- DISPLAY
- Retrieve an object from the database and display it on your
terminal
- EDIT
- Edit a table in the database by using the Table Editor
You can only use the EDIT command to edit a table from the database object
list. If you want to edit a query or procedure, you must display
it first.
- ERASE
- Delete an object from the database
- EXIT
- End your QMF session
- EXPORT
- Export QMF objects that are stored in the database directly
from the database into a file (CMS), data set (TSO and CICS- z/OS),
or queue name (CICS)
- IMPORT
- Import QMF objects directly into the database from a file
(CMS), data set (TSO and CICS- OS/390), or data queue name (CICS)
- LAYOUT
- Display the format of a report that is produced from a given
form without using any data
You can use LAYOUT only with form objects, and only in an environment
in which both REXX and ISPF are available.
- PRINT
- Print a database object
- RUN
- Run a query or procedure that is stored in the database
- SAVE
- Replace the object in the database with the object currently
in temporary storage- for example, if you enter:
SAVE QUERY AS
next to a query on the database object list, QMF replaces that
query in the database with the query currently in temporary storage
