Re: ASSOCIATORS OF queries in CMPI

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:37:40 +0000, Johnny Hwang wrote:

> It's not just a Microsoft specific thing, if that's what you're
> wondering.
> 
> Here's an example with cimcli:
> 
> cimcli -n interop a
> 'PG_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="SNIA+Server+1.1.0"' [-ac
> <AssociatorClassName>] [-rc <ResultClassName]
> 

Thanks for responding. I think I understand how to make something like 
that work (enumerate associations and enumerate references that is), but 
is there such a thing outside of microsoft as something like

cimcli xq 'ASSOCIATORS OF PG_RegisteredProfile.InstanceID="SNIA+Server
+1.1.0"'

or more mysterious and relevent to my search are the talks of things like:

SELECT a, b, c FROM ASSOCIATORS OF Class.Instance

Is that sort of thing real? Does anyone use queries like this? Do we 
normally just use the enumeration operations with filters/keys/qualifiers?