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QMF for z/OS

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Display Indexes and their columns, within QMF for Workstation, for each table. RFE 122333

We have application developers who use QMF for Workstation to write and run their SQL. From time to time, we are asked what indexes exist for specific tables, and their columns. If would be nice if QMF provided this information.
over 5 years ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

Support for MongoDB via JDBC

MongoDB is a very prelevant database in the business world and its marketshare is growing. Many customers will benefit from this enhancement
almost 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Scheduled tasks to have optional timezone drop down.

Scheduled tasks to have optional timezone drop down. Currently timezone is where ever QMF EE is deployed on. For example: QMF EE web app is deployed on servers that is on EST. it will run task on EST regardless of timezone you think you are runnin...
about 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Capture Error messages in JavaScript Procs

QMF REXX PMR TS007495199 Correct lack of TSO functionalist enhancement with handling messages: “Ability in a converted REXX proc (to JavaScript) to capture error messages and allow a user to write them to a table for future study”. (enable capturi...
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 4 Delivered

Set APPLICATION_NAME and CLIENT_APPLNAME property on QMF tool level to easily identify QMF tool database connection

I have downloaded fresh new version of QMF for Workstation v13.1 on Windows 10. This issue is also present in previous versions, so not a regression on latest version. 1. Start QMF tool. 2. Connect to any Db2 database. I have connected to Db2 v11....
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

FL505 REBIND phase-in for packages extended to include BIND Package ACTION(REPLACE)

Rebind phase-in is already useful. We have use cases typically for HOLD actions for 3rd party tools that tend to BIND Package ACTION(REPLACE) rather than REBIND existing packages. So we still have to find a quiet time, e.g. for QMF Binds Like the ...
almost 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 5 Delivered

Support sorting results by more than 3 columns RFE 36055

QMF for Windows allows results to be sorted by up to 3 columns. We need QMF for Windows to support more than 3 sort columns. First choice would be to support sorting on an unlimited number of columns, similar to the ability to do this in Excel.
almost 11 years ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

QMF for Websphere - allow creator of web links to delete their own web links

Users can create Weblinks but cannot manage them. That is, they cannot list the weblinks they have created and modify or delete them. We request Weblinks be treated like the rest of the QMF objects and be available for users to manage them.
almost 5 years ago in QMF for z/OS 3 Delivered

QMF EE Websphere weblinks to work without logging on RFE 120243

We recently enable security feature of QMF EE Websphere. Now all the weblinks requires us to log on to see the dashboards/dynamart.
almost 6 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Delivered

QMF Analytical query to support EXCEPT and INTERSECT RFE 128190

The Analytical Query currently supports JOINS and APPENDS which are analogous to JOINS and UNION ALL in SQL.This request is to make the Analytical Query support functions analogous to the rest of this family of SQL statements, namely EXCEPT, INTER...
over 5 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered