On a prompt panel

QMF displays a command prompt panel if you enter a command with a syntactical error or a misspelling twice in succession, or when you enter the command name followed by a question mark on the command line. This prompt panel is useful when entering long commands.

For example, when you enter RUN ? the following command prompt panel is displayed on which you can enter the required information:

                     RUN Command Prompt
                                               1  to 8 of 8
Type (____________________)
 
Name (____________________________________________________)+
     To run an object from temporary storage, enter its type:
     QUERY or PROC.
 
     To run an object from the database, enter its name (and
     optionally its type).  Type can be QUERY or PROC.
________________________________________________________________
F1=Help  F3=End  F4=List  F7=Backward  F8=Forward

If QMF needs additional information to complete a command, a second panel prompts you for command parameters.

You can skip the first panel of this two-step prompt by entering the command, the object type, and the object name, followed by a question mark on the command line. A panel appears containing the parameters that are applicable to that object.

A question mark is not valid in the parameters portion of a command (after the left parenthesis). Also, any parameters following the question mark are ignored. For example, (FORM=FORM2 is ignored in the following command:

RUN QUERY MYQUERY ? (FORM=FORM2

These three function keys are contained on most prompt panels:

Help

Displays help information about the message being displayed at the bottom of the screen.

List

Displays a list of objects from which you can select.

End

Returns to the panel from which the prompt was issued.