JQL COMMANDS

Day 1 – Session 3 - 4
JQL Commands
Dates
21/02/2011 Tech Support Program
Venue
Microcred, Senagal
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 jBase Query Language (JQL)

• Allows data retrieval from the database in a structured order
• Presents data in a flexible and easily understood format
• Used to process data in the database and to generate reports
• Record selection for processing
– Report formatting
– Sorting
– Data field manipulation capabilities
• Enter JQL statements in the jBase prompt to see how each one
works

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 SELECT
• Used to get the count of the given file
• Conditional select can be given
– Eg: SELECT FBNK.CUSTOMER

• Enter LIST to come out of SELECT mode

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 SELECT with condition

• Relational operators can be used in conditional Select
• SELECT FBNK.CUSTOMER WITH SECTOR EQ 1001

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 RELATIONAL OPERATORS

EQ NE

NOT GT

GE LT

LIKE UNLIKE

SAID LE

IS.NULL IS.NOT.NULL

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 SSELECT
• Sort select is used to get the selected list in Sorted order

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 NSELECT
• NSELECT command is used to get the negated select from the
selected list
• Eg:

– Get the list of customer records in INAU which is not available in

Live file
» SELECT FBNK.CUSTOMER$NAU
» NSELECT FBNK.CUSTOMER

– This will give a list of customers in IANU which is not available in

live file

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 QSELECT
• Thiscommand is used to get the count of all multi value fields in
the record
• Eg:

– SELECT FBNK.CUSTOMER.ACCOUNT “100250”

– QSELECT FBNK.CUSTOMER.ACCOUNT

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 SAMPLE SELECT
• Selection
on big files take long time. In this case sample select
can be made to get few records quickly
– LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER ONLY SAMPLE 10

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 LIST
• Command to list all the records in a file
• This will list all the records with fields and field values
• Eg. LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER

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 LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER

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 LIST… ONLY
• To list only the ids without fields
• Eg : LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER ONLY

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 LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER ONLY

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 LIST (specific fields)

• To list only specific fields in all the records in a file
• Eg.
LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER MNEMONIC SHORT.NAME
NAME.1

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 LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER MNEMONIC SHORT.NAME

NAME.1

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 NOPAGE
• Thisoption is used to list all the items without pressing Enter
key to go the next page
• LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER MNEMONIC NAME.1 NOPAGE

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 Listing of Specific records

• LISTFBNK.CUSTOMER WITH NAME.1 = “SUNN" “SAI"
“BABU“
– List those records whose Name.1 matches the above mentioned
value
• LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER WITH NAME.1 = “SAI" AND WITH
SHORT.NAME= “SAIRAM“
– If both Name.1 and Name.2 matches then only the record will be
retrieved

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 Listing of Specific records

 LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER WITH NAME.1 = “ABC XZ BANK”

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 Soundex Selection
• LIST
FBNK.CUSTOMER NAME.1 WITH NAME.1 SAID
"SUNN“
– Will list only those records which sounds like “SUNN” and the
retrieved value will have ‘S’ as the starting letter

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 LIST.ITEM
• This command is used to list all the items in the record
• Eg:

– LIST.ITEM FBNK.CUSTOMER.ACCOUNT
– LIST.ITEM F.JOB.LIST.6

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 Listing JOB.LIST.6

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 Output of LIST.ITEM command

 LIST.ITEM F.JOB.LIST.6

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 SAVE.LIST
• It is possible to save the selected the items and then use it later
• Saved list name should be provided
• This list will get stored in &SAVEDLISTS& folder

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 GET.LIST
• This command is used to get the file from &SAVEDLISTS&

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 SORT
• By default it will sort in ascending order
• Ifyou want to sort the records in descending order we have to
explicitly mention in the sort statement
• Sort File BY FIELD Fields

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 SORT FBNK.CUSTOMER BY NAME.1 NAME.1 NAME.2

• This command will sort the record by Name.1 in ascending order
• Though it is not specified in the sort command by default it will
take ascending order

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 SORT

 SORT FBNK.CUSTOMER BY NAME.1 NAME.1 NAME.2

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 SORT FBNK.CUSTOMER BY-DSND NAME.1 NAME.1

• This
command will sort the record by Name.1 in descending
order

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 SORT FBNK.ACCOUNT BY CATEGORY BY SHORT.TITLE

CATEGORY SHORT.TITLE
• This command will sort the record by id and name in ascending
order

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 BREAK-ON
• SORTFBNK.CUSTOMER BY SECTOR BREAK-ON SECTOR
NAME.1
– This command will insert a break each time the value in the Break-
On field changes
– (I.e) when the Name.1 changes there will be some spaces between
records

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 SORT BY Field BREAK-ON Field-Name

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 COUNT
• COUNT FBNK.ACCOUNT
• Count is used to count the total number of records in a file

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 SUPPRESS

 SUPPRESS : ID-SUPP
• Suppress the record ID from being displayed as the first field in
any report
• SORT FBNK.ACCOUNT BY CUSTOMER BREAK-ON "'P'"
CUSTOMER @ID WORKING.BALANCE ID-SUPP
• By default the id of each record will be displayed even if the id
column is not given
• To suppress that id column we have to give Id-Supp

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 List without suppress :

• LIST FBNK.STMT.ENTRY AMOUNT.LCY COSNOL.KEY

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 List with ID suppress

• LIST
FBNK.STMT.ENTRY AMOUNT.LCY CONSOL.KEY ID-
SUPP

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 SUPPRESS : DET-SUPP Details suppress

• SORTFBNK.ACCOUNT BY CATEGORY BREAK-ON
CATEGORY TOTAL WORKING.BALANCE DET-SUPP
• Lists the total working balance for each category without the
account detail
• If DET-SUPP is not given then the command will list all the
account and working balance for each customer along with the
grand total of each category

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 ESEARCH
• This command will search the specified string the specified file
• Eg:

– ESEARCH GLOBUS.BP
– STRING:RADAR
– STRING:
– 4 record(s) selected to SELECT list #0

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 ESEARCH FBNK.CUSTOMER
 String:? DENORSKE
 String: ?

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 SEARCH
• SEARCH is also used to get the search string from file
• This can also search in a specific record
• “*” is used to search in all files

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 DELETE.FILE
• This
command is used to delete the records and the entire file
completely
 DELETE.FILE <File-Name>

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 DELETE
• This command is used to delete selected records
• “*” can be given to delete all the records

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 EDELETE
• Used to delete the records from the file

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 CLEAR.FILE
• Used to clear all the records in the file

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 LPTR
• Thiscommand is used to store the report in &HOLD& without
display
• This can be used with SETPTR command
– SETPTR 800,800,,,,6,BANNER CUS.LIST1
» Unit Number :0
» Page Width :800
» Page Depth :66
» Top Margin :3
» Bottom Margin :3
» Print mode : 6 - Output to HOLD file ( CUS.LIST1 )

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 SETPTR 800,800,,,,6,BANNER CUS.LIST1

 LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER ONLY LPTR

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 The output will be available in &HOLD& with the file name

CUS.LIST1
 Find the path of &HOLD& from VOC

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 DBL-SPC
• This command is used to give double space between the lines
• LIST
FBNK.CUSTOMER NAME.1 SECTOR NATIONALITY
DBL-SPC

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 WILD CARD CHARACTERS

“ ^ “
– This can be used as a wild card character in queries
– Eg: LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER = ‘100^89’ ONLY

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“[ “
– This can be used for left ignore
– Eg : LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER = ‘[00289’ ONLY

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“ ] ”
– This can be used for right ignore
– Eg : LIST FBNK.CUSTOMER = ‘10029]’ ONLY

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 Summary

 We have learnt about the

• Various Jbase tools & utilities commands
• Features of JED
• Navigation in Editor
• Features of JQL

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