When you display or work with any QMF object, QMF places a copy of that object in a temporary storage area. There is one temporary storage area for each type of object, so you can only have one of each object in temporary storage at a time. The name of the temporary storage area is the same as the object type. QMF places QUERY objects in the QUERY temporary storage area, REPORT objects in the REPORT temporary storage area, and so on.
When you make changes to objects in temporary storage, you do not change the actual object stored in the database unless you save that object when you finish working with it.
For example, you can lose changes to an object in temporary storage if you end a QMF session without saving the object. You can also lose changes if you display another object of the same type before you save the one on which you are working.
You cannot save a REPORT object. Instead, you save the query and form that produce the report. To save a CHART, you save the data and the chart format. You will learn more about saving charts in Chapter 7, Displaying Your Report as a Chart.