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Executing Online

After you select a query or dialog from the DIRECTORY OF QUERIES panel, you press a PF key to indicate your choice of an execution method.

When you execute a query online, you request immediate use of system resources to query the database table and return information in the form of a report. The surest way to get an immediate report (if the query was designed to process quickly) is to specify the screen as your report destination. If you specify a printer as the destination, the report output might follow other print requests for the same printer. It is usually best to review your output online at the terminal before printing it, although you can route the output to the printer and the screen at the same time.

The ONLINE EXECUTION panel might be suppressed by a USER PROFILE option coded by your CA Dataquery Administrator. If so, execution PF keys initiate execution with default specifications and without displaying the panel. If you find you need to execute a query online with different specifications than the defaults, see your CA Dataquery Administrator about changing your profile.