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Query Reference Manual

Allows the user to send a long command string to a specified data server (by extending the SEND command).

All command lines following a START entry will be concatenated to form a composite command of any required length until terminated by a corresponding END entry.

The maximum length for a single query line is 120 characters.

The maximum total length for the overall query string (i.e. all lines between the START and END commands) is 4095 characters.

Example:

EXTERNAL SEND $!!MAINT START
’select refno, servint, lastserv from maintdata’
’where elementtype = ’’EQUIPMENT’’’
END

Note:

The use of multiple delimiting ’’ characters for nesting text within text in this example. The user could, alternatively, write the example using ‘vertical bar’ text delimiters, thus:

EXTERNAL SEND $!!MAINT START

|select refno, servint, lastserv from maintdata|

|where elementtype = ’EQUIPMENT’|

END

Syntax:

                                          .-------------.
                                         /              |
 >-- EXTERnal SENd server_token START --*-- text - nl --+-- END -->

where:

server_token is an integer identifying the required data server channel.