Using the application

The application must be invoked while its user is operating under QMF. When invoked, the application prepares a batch job for the user and submits it to the background. The job is prepared from information the user enters on a prompt panel. It runs a single query or procedure of the user's choice. Assuming the batch job is a select query, the job can also:

• Save the data object that is created by running the query
• Format the report object using a form of the user's choice
• Print the report
• Send the report to one or more other users

The advantage to using the application lies in its prompt panel, where the user outlines what the job should do and leaves the details of how to do it to the application.

To use the batch application, enter:

BATCH

which results in the display of the prompt panel in Figure 256