Products in the QMF family

The QMF product family consists of robust business intelligent tools that you can use in various combinations to leverage your business data for growth.

QMF offers multiple flavors in terms of the licensing options and the components that are available for each licensing option. Choose the offering that best suits your business needs.

The following table lists the components that are available in each offering:

Table 1. IBM Db2 QMF Offerings and their components
QMF component IBM Db2® QMF Offerings
IBM Db2 QMF for z/OS® IBM Db2 QMF Enterprise Edition IBM Db2 QMF Classic Edition IBM QMF Analytics for Multiplatforms
QMF for TSO and CICS® Yes Yes Yes -
QMF High Performance Option1 Yes Yes Yes -
QMF Applications Yes Yes Yes -
QMF Z Client Yes Yes - -
QMF Data Service Yes Yes - -
QMF Data Service Studio Yes Yes - Yes
QMF Server Yes Yes - Yes
QMF for Workstation Yes Yes - Yes
QMF for WebSphere® Yes Yes - Yes
QMF Vision1 Yes Yes - Yes
1 These QMF components are set to be deprecated in the future. For more information, see Deprecated and removed features in QMF.

IBM Db2 QMF for z/OS

This stand-alone offering enables enterprise-wide access to business information across end-user and database platforms. QMF for z/OS provides the same features as QMF Enterprise Edition.

You can purchase the QMF for z/OS license as a one-time charge (OTC) license. Along with the OTC license, you can also purchase the optional annual Support and Subscription (S&S) service.
  • If you purchase the OTC license, you own a perpetual license of the specific version. For example, if you purchase the OTC license for QMF for z/OS 13, you own the license for all fix packs and releases of QMF for z/OS 13.
  • If you also purchase the annual S&S, you are entitled to the support and subscription to the future upgrades for the specific version.
Important: To claim future support and subscription at any time, you must continuously renew the OTC license.

IBM Db2 QMF Enterprise Edition

This offering provides the same features as QMF for z/OS and contains all the functions of QMF Classic Edition.

You can purchase the QMF Enterprise Edition as monthly license charge (MLC). If you purchase the MLC license, you own the license of the specific version and you are also provided support for the time for which your license is active.

IBM Db2 QMF Classic Edition

This offering supports the end users, who work entirely from traditional mainframe terminals and emulators to access databases in the IBM® Db2 family. QMF Classic Edition does not include the distributed components, such as QMF for Workstation, QMF for WebSphere, and QMF Server. You can purchase the QMF Classic Edition as MLC. If you purchase the MLC license, you own the license of a specific version and you are also provided support for the time for which your license is active.

IBM QMF Analytics for Multiplatforms

This distributed platform-only offering enables end users to leverage the visualization, dash-boarding, and graphical ad-hoc query capabilities of QMF on non-z/OS platforms.

QMF Analytics for Multiplatforms is available as an OTC license for the on-prem product and includes one year of S&S with the initial purchase. Subsequently, you can annually renew the S&S service.



Various components are available in the QMF product family: