If your installation has DXT, you can access all the functions of DXT End User Dialogs while in QMF. You can send a predefined extract request to DXT for processing, create a new extract request, or update an existing extract request. You can load extract output into physical sequential files, relational tables, or other output targets that are supported by DXT.
To use DXT from QMF, issue the EXTRACT command. Depending upon how you specify the command, it either invokes the DXT End User Dialogs to let you create an extract request or update an existing one. Or, it sends a named data extract to DXT to run.
When you access DXT End User Dialogs from QMF, you remain there until you choose to exit, then you return to the QMF environment.
You can access DXT from QMF in either batch or interactive mode. However, in batch mode, you cannot perform operations that display a panel. In addition, you cannot display a panel through the QMF command interface unless you specify INTERACT.
Your QMF administrator might have already set you up to use DXT. If you do not have all three of the following items or you are not sure whether you do, contact your QMF administrator. You cannot complete a dialog until these items are in place:
For information about using DXT, see the Data Extract: Users Guide.
To display the DXT main menu: To go directly to the main menu panel in DXT End User Dialogs, enter EXTRACT on the command line of any QMF panel.
When the main menu panel displays, you can choose from the options available for building or updating an extract request. You can select any menu option by pressing a function key or by entering a letter on the command line.
When you are ready to return to QMF, exit DXT End User Dialogs.
To send an extract request to DXT from QMF: Issue the EXTRACT command, including the name of the extract request. For example, enter:
EXTRACT extract-name (PASSWORD=
QMF sends the named extract request to DXT for processing. However, DXT panels do not appear. Therefore, it appears as if you never left QMF.
You need a password when you give an extract name and the extract is for a relational DB2 or SQL/DS table. The password you enter does not appear on your screen.
If no errors result from the request, QMF returns the message Extract request successfully sent on the message line of your screen. You can immediately resume whatever QMF activity you were performing.
If an error related to the request results, QMF displays a message that contains a QMF interpretation of the DXT End Use Dialog's return code.
To display the EXTRACT command prompt panel: On the QMF command line, enter:
EXTRACT ?
The EXTRACT Command Prompt panel displays. The panel also displays if you enter the EXTRACT command incorrectly twice in succession.
To send the extract request to the DXT End User Dialogs for processing, enter a valid extract name on the panel. You then return to the QMF environment.