Re: Was Query/400 or DB2 Query Manager an off-shoot of QMF

Query management on iSeries can also import Query/400 definitions - FYI. One 
uses the RTVQMQRY command in the same way you would against a QMQRY whether 
from the mainframe or created on iSeries. Very cross-platformish stuff.

Vern

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 

Paul, 

I don't want to know who now makes QMF for Windows, I'm looking for the 
linage of Query/400 and Query Manager for DB2 on the i5. And I've 
found it... Query Manager for DB2 is a direct decent from QMF on the 
mainframe and QMF for Windows is a moderanization of that per the 
following from IBM: 
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Query/400's heritage was always S/3x. The same product ran on S/36 and 
S/38. 

Query Manager was from the mainframe and was ported to OS/400 - and 
you 
could, if memory serves me, create a Query Manager definition and it 
would 
be portable across iSeries and mainframe (which probably only really 
makes 
sense during testing of a migration). 

So QMF for Windows was intended to be a more modernized version of 
Query 
Manager (but at some point, the QMF for Windows development folks added 
a 
capability to import Query/400 definitions too). 

So I think the answer is yes, Query Manager was the mainframe 
text-based 
QMF product that was brought to OS/400 many years ago. 
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Why is this important??? Smooths the "gating factor" of Government 
procurement. 

Thanks, 

Dave 

...Doug 

Doug Mack 
WW System i5 Sales 
4133 Banbridge Lp SE 
Olympia, WA 98501 
206-587-7837 
mobile: 360-481-1271 
mackd@xxxxxxxxxx 



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