QMF for CICS on VSE/ESA and OS/390 Version 7.2 product limitations

Some functions provided by QMF are dependent on underlying system services and other program products that are available in VM/CMS and OS/390/TSO, but not in CICS/VSE or CICS on OS/390. ISPF is not available in CICS. REXX is not available in QMF CICS, even though REXX is available in VSE/ESA 1.3. The following QMF functions or programs are not supported in QMF for VSE/ESA Version 7.2. These functions depend on ISPF (as well as other services in some cases):

• Report calculations
• Conditional formatting
• Column definition
• Procedures with logic

Other products are not available in CICS:

• Repository Manager
• Document Interface

The EDIT PROC and EDIT QUERY commands are not available in CICS. However, it is possible to edit procedures and queries using the DISPLAY command with QMF. Other products are not available in QMF for VSE/ESA Version 7.2:

• CMS command (VM only)
• TSO command (TSO only)
• CONNECT command (when issued to connect to another database)
• Remote unit of work and distributed unit of work

  DB2 on VSE is a server, not a requester. It can be accessed by other application requesters where QMF is installed, but QMF users on VSE cannot connect to another application server with the QMF CONNECT command.

• QMF client/server components

  The function of QMF on VSE is synchronized with that of QMF on other platforms. As a result, some functions that exist in QMF Version 1 are not supported in QMF for VSE/ESA Version 7.2:

  • Command canceling
  • IMPORT ISQL queries
  • Table plot utility
  • QMF VSE Version 1 defaults module for starting QMF
  • VSE/POWER support (use methods supplied by CICS or GDDM to print your objects)
  • QMF supplied views
  • QMF sample queries from QMF VSE V1. QMF for VSE/ESA

    Version 7.2 does not supply sample objects except for tables (sample queries are not discussed in the documentation). It is not abnormal that, under some circumstances, a QMF Version 1 report looks slightly different in Version 7.2. You can make it look the same as it did in Version 1 with a minor adjustment on the FORM.OPTIONS panel.