Notes

The result of the END command varies depending on what panel you are using and if an initial procedure is executing.

If you enter END (or press the End function key):

• From the QMF Home panel, your QMF session ends.
• From any of the following QMF panels:

  QUERY      FORM.MAIN     FORM.COLUMNS
  PROC       FORM.CALC     FORM.OPTIONS
  PROFILE    FORM.DETAIL   FORM.BREAK.n
  REPORT     FORM.FINAL    FORM.CONDITIONS
             FORM.PAGE     Global variable list

  the QMF Home panel is displayed.
• From a prompt panel, the panel on which you issued the command that caused the prompt is displayed. (This could be the QMF Home panel, or the panel for FORM, PROC, PROFILE, QUERY, or REPORT.)

  If you press the End function key after making an entry on the prompt panel and before pressing enter, the entry you made is not processed.

• From a Table Editor panel, your changes are committed and the panel from which you called the Table Editor is displayed.

  When you press the End function key from a Table Editor panel, a confirmation panel is displayed so you can decide whether to end (commit your changes to the database) or not (return to the Table Editor panels).

The END command does not work as described above in the following situations:

• If QMF was started with an initial procedure, END reruns the initial procedure without displaying the QMF Home panel.
• If the current panel is the QMF Home panel and END is issued through the QMF command or callable interface, the QMF session is not terminated immediately. Instead, the EXEC, CLIST, or program containing the END command regains control. In this case, the QMF session is not terminated until the EXEC, CLIST, or program ends.
• If END is issued from a new interactive session that was started by the INTERACT command, control is returned to the application or procedure from which the INTERACT command was issued. In this case, END does not terminate the session or display the QMF Home panel.
• If the END command is issued from a new interactive session that was started as the result of issuing a command on the database object list panel, the database object list is displayed. In this case, END does not terminate the session or display the QMF Home panel.

For more information on using END in an interactive session, see Developing QMF Applications.