QMF for Workstation system requirements

Before installing QMF for Workstation ensure that your environment meets the following minimum requirements.

Hardware requirements

Each workstation on which QMF for Workstation runs should accommodate the following minimum requirements:

  • Hardware configuration that supports Windows.
  • Minimum of 2 GB of disk space
    Note: Size of the disk space will be dependent on the user data.
  • Minimum of 4 GB of RAM

Software requirements

QMF for Workstation can run on any of the following operating systems:

  • Microsoft Windows 8
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1
  • Microsoft Windows 10
  • Microsoft Windows 11
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019

Data sources

QMF for Workstation supports the following data sources:

  • IBM Db2 LUW1
  • IBM Cloudant
  • IBM BigSQL
  • MongoDB
    Note: Support for MongoDB is limited to read access. You will be able to fetch the data and read it. You will not be able to write to the database or create repository storage.
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • IBM Netezza
  • Oracle Database
  • PostgreSQL
  • Teradata
  • Hive
    Note: Hive does not support the update and deletion of rows.
  • Spark
    Note: Spark does not support the update and deletion of rows.
  • Athena
  • RedShift
  • Snowflake
  • DVM virtual data sources
  • Amazon S3
  • Apache Kafka

1 BLU Acceleration is not supported.

Prerequisites

The following QMF for Workstation functions have software dependencies:
  • Database connectivity requires an appropriate JDBC driver for each type of RDBMS that is accessed.
  • Connection to Db2 data sources requires the JDBC driver (db2jcc4.jar) version 4.31.10 or later, which supports Java 11.
  • Exporting result sets to Microsoft Excel requires a minimum level of Excel 2010.