Role-based user interfaces
QMF for Workstation is specifically designed to accommodate the roles that are found in organizations that rely on business intelligence software. Perspectives provide the views, menus, and wizards that are commonly used by a particular type of business intelligence user.
- Administrator
- The Administrator perspective provides the views, menus, and wizards that enable a user with administrative privileges to create and maintain repositories.
- Visual Designer
- The Visual Designer perspective provides the views, menus, and wizards that are used to create visual reports and dashboards.
- User
- The User perspective provides the views, menus, and wizards that are used to query data sources, access or construct reports, and view dashboards.
- QMF
- The QMF perspective replicates the look and feel of QMF for Windows 8.
Users can switch between the four different perspectives according to how their security privileges are set.
In QMF for TSO and CICS®, administrators control access to objects by granting SQL authorities and privileges for specific objects as necessary. Function keys and commands can be customized by user or group role; these definitions can then be referenced by each user's QMF profile during initialization so that the customized interface displays when the QMF session starts.