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• Access information about queries, such as remarks and tracking
• Use the QMF for Windows interface or your favorite application interface
• Integrate with Excel, Visual Basic, Powerbuilder (all OLE 2.0 compliant applications)
using simple application macros or developer environments such as Visual Age for Basic
or Visual Basic
Developer benefits:
• Eliminate database gateways, middleware, or ODBC drivers
• Integrate with any Windows OLE 2.0 automation client application
• Call on QMF for Windows services with its API
• Use HELP for supplied sample API code as templates
• Bring industrial strength to ordinary desktop languages
• Leverage skills of the desktop development community
• Query in native DB2 syntax (the server's SQL)
• Get the reliability, performance, and security of DB2
• Let QMF for Windows automatically manage DB2 resources (threads, conversations,
states) in the background
• Use performance enhancing technologies, such as static SQL, directly in your Windows
applications
• Shield users from the complexity of connections
• Retrieve QMF for Windows objects stored on servers and launch than from within
Windows applications
• Eliminate manual export and import procedures from the host to PC
Administrator benefits:
• Protect DB2 from runaway queries and novice users with robust governing
• Use existing DB2 security
• Safely store Windows user resource limits at the DB2 database server
• Supports different limits for different users, groups, and schedules
• Temporarily suspend a user's limits
• Use many governing criteria, including:
– Schedule by time of day, day of week
– Maximum rows or bytes to fetch
– Amount of time a cursor can remain open without being used
– Amount of time to wait for a response from the DB2 database server
– Amount of time a connection to a DB2 database server can remain unused
– Set query isolation level
– Allow or disallow running static SQL or stored procedures
– Allow or disallow ad hoc query capability
– Allow or disallow SQL verbs including:
ALTER, CALL, CREATE, DELETE, DROP, GRANT, INSERT, REVOKE, UPDATE,
COMMENT, EXPLAIN, LABEL, LOCK, SELECT, SET
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