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QMF for z/OS

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Add support for Snowflake

Currently Snowflake has about 16% of the market share for cloud databases. Two or three customers have requested support for it.
about 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Delivered

QMF for Workstation or QMF for Websphere to have inline edit rows/column values and delete row values RFE 120690

In DataQuant a user can run a query against a table and then delete/change a row/column inline. In QMF a user needs to use the Table Editor tool to edit any values and the table editor does not allow for any predicts or data reordering functionali...
almost 6 years ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

QMF should provide enhanced error messages in case of Proc failure

This is required for debugging the procs for any failures. QMF object causing the failure along with line number should be included in the error message .
over 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

QMF - Add support for DB2 systems using RACF security RFE 78202

QMF has the following administrator check on product initialization:It is trying to insert or delete from Q.PROFILES table. If the insert/delete succeeded, then the user becomes "QMF Admin".Else, It is a regular QMF user. This check is based on ge...
over 8 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Implement the access to Cloudant in QMF

Implement the access to Cloudant in QMF that was previously available in DataQuant. All Cloudant customers will benefit from this whether they have the z/OS or multiplatform version of QMF.
almost 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Simplify the Scheduled Task to a right click menu (12.2.0.4)

In order to create a Scheduled Task, it requires 11 to 25 or more actions, clicking buttons and entering credentials etc.
over 4 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

QMF Websphere - provide Content Assist functionality in other browsers (12.2.0.4)

Content Assist functionality works only on Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. Many users use Google Chrome and / or Mozilla Firefox.
over 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Delivered

Insert function for Table Editor

Currently in the Table Editor you can right-click on a row to edit or delete but not to insert. To insert you have to go to the Results pulldown menu.
almost 5 years ago in QMF for z/OS 7 Delivered

Setting APPLCOMPAT at BIND of QMF packages

We apply service to QMF for TSO. That includes running DSQ1BPKG to bind packages. All packages are bound with APPLCOMPAT(V11R1) although we have set DSNZPARM APPLCOMPAT=V12R1M504. The APPLCOMAT parameter for the BIND is set by DSQ1BPKO and there ...
about 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

Superfluous DB2 GRANTs for customers using DB2/RACF security exit RFE 55601

Since the advent of the DB2/RACF security exit, IBM has not modified QMF (& other DB2 related products, as well as DB2 ) installation to allow user NOT to do DB2 GRANT statements.
over 9 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered