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Getting Help

The CA OLQ help system provides quick answers about how to use CA OLQ.

For example, if you're working on the Column Select screen and have a question about how to specify selection criteria, you can press [PF1] to get more information.

The following help screen shows ways to specify retrieval selection criteria.

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                HELP FOR *** COLUMN (FIELD) SELECT ***
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   Retrieving all rows            If you don't enter any selection criteria on
                                  the screen, CA OLQ will retrieve all rows from
                                  the data tables or records.

   What to type under             Each column has its own SELECTION CRITERIA
   SELECTION CRITERIA             entry.  If you want to retrieve rows based
                                  on the value in a certain column, fill in the
                                  SELECTION CRITERIA entry of that column.  For
                                  example:
                                                          SELECTION CRITERIA
                                  X  02 COLUMN1
                                  _  02 COLUMN2
                                  X  02 COLUMN3           eq 2000
                                  X  02 COLUMN4           gt 5 * COLUMN1

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