QUERY WINDOW
Authorization
General User
Purpose
Use the QUERY WINDOW command to display information about one or all of the windows you have defined. Use the SET WINDOW command to specify window characteristics. For more information, see SET WINDOW.
Operands
- wname
- is the name of the window about which information is to be displayed.
- =
- indicates information about the topmost window is to be displayed. Only a window defined with the TOP option can qualify as the topmost window.
- *
- indicates information for all windows is to be displayed. This is the default.
- ALL
- displays the options for a window or all windows in addition to the size and location.
Responses
- For
One line is displayed for each window.
Where:WINDOW wname lines cols psline pscol
- wname
- is the name of the window.
- lines
- is the number of lines in the window.
- cols
- is the number of columns in the window.
- psline
- is the line on the physical screen where the window is placed.
- pscol
- is the column on the physical screen where the window is placed.
- For
Where:WINDOW wname lines cols psline pscol (type border pop top system
- type
- is VARIABLE if the window is a variable size or FIXED if the window is a fixed size.
- border
- is BORDER if the border is set ON, or NOBORDER if the borders are OFF.
- pop
- indicates whether the window is displayed on top of all other windows (POP) or there is no effect on the window's position in the ordered list of windows (NOPOP) when the virtual screen the window is showing is updated.
- top
- indicates whether the window may qualify as the topmost window (TOP) or cannot qualify as the topmost window (NOTOP)
- system
- indicates whether the window is retained (SYSTEM) or deleted (USER) when a task abnormally ends (abend) or when the HX (halt execution) command is issued.
Note: When using the ALL operand, the response may be too long for one line. If so, it wraps to the next one.
Options
For more information on the Options, Usage Notes, and Error Messages that apply to all operands of the QUERY command, see QUERY.