One of the other issues from the slides that was left over and
Cecile Chi postulated that the ;parm=%777 was to do with
the Business Basic decimal issue, and she was correct.

 From the Query manual:

Generally, the QUERYCM program provides the same functionality as QUERY but
with some lower limits for internal tables. One exception is that only the
Compatibility Mode version may be run with a PARM=%777 to invoke a Business
Basic Floating Decimal override, which treats K1 and K2 datatypes as
Floating Decimal datatypes

Neil Armstrong
Robelle Solutions Technology Inc.