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QMF for z/OS

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A means of checking who are the current active users in qmf_for_websphere

Because otherwise how do you measure how many users in the organization are using this product ? In case they don't , you don't need to maintain it anymore (users might prefer using qmf for tso )
2 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Submitted

QMF for WEBSPHERE - BIDI SUPPORT REQUIRED as in QMF for WORKSTATION

We have many tables that has columns in Hebrew (in addition to the English columns) In order to see them correctly, a BIDI support is required ( bidirectional text layout transformations). This is already implemented in QMF WORKSTATION but not in ...
8 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Use IDMS available JDBC driver to allow QMF connect and access/update data in IDMS using SQL through SQL server feature of IDMS (v19)

Using IDMS JDBC driver and IDMS SQL server feature (instead of QMF data services) to access IDMS data has the following advantages: 1- Much easier and straight forward setup. 2- No additional components (QMF data services) are required to run on z...
8 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0

Deploy of QMF websphere on zCX Openshift

We are installing QMF for Websphere on z/OS but would like to run it under zCX Openshift. When will QMF for Websphere container based support for Red Hat OpenShift be available?
8 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0

Need an APAR to fix the version mismatch in QMF V12.2

Hello Team, After the QMF v12.2 upgrade still the Home screen of the QMF tool shows as V12.1 only. When I checked with GSD team they said that IBM Labs had decided to keep the FMIDs of both the products same. Because of this we are not able to see...
12 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Future consideration

TLS 1.3 Support

Hi QMF Team!TLS 1.3 Support is being a key to increase more and more Security. According to IBM CISO at January of 2024 will be a requirement. Reference: https://pages.github.ibm.com/ciso-psg/main/supplemental/acceptable_encryption.html#TLSVersion...
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Prevent underscores in column names from causing line breaks in headings

We have column names that consists of underscores as part of the name. After submitting a query using QMF, the reported output generates column headings that treat those underscores as line breaks. Provide an option to preserve the names on one li...
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

QMF EE for websphere Edit menu to have copy, paste, replace feature

QMF EE for websphere when editing a query, edit menu is grayed out which lets copy, paste, find and replace text within a query. Currently, the workaround is use keyboard short cuts.
about 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add 'WITHOUT CURSOR HOLD' bind option

We have occasionally seen timeouts against DB2 catalog tables that trace back to long running threads from QMF for Workstation that are running WITH CURSOR HOLD
about 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lifecycle Management Server Mappings for Local Install

Provide the capability to map different environments (like Dev and Prod) in the Source and Target mappings of Lifecycle management so objects can be migrated between different PAW environments within a Planning Analytics Local install.
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists