Course Description

QMF For Programmers

This course: course objectives; course outline;
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Benefits

Students who complete this course will be able to code SQL statements to access DB2 objects using QMF. The student also learns how to use QMF forms to tailor the presentation of results from QMF queries.

Audience

Application programmers who need to work with DB2 data using QMF, and who need to develop applications that incorporate QMF functions.

Prerequisites

Experience using ISPF/PDF.

IBM Materials

This course is drawn from these IBM manuals; access to them in the classroom is desirable but not required:

QMF Reference
DB2 SQL Reference

• Relational data base concepts
• DB2 concepts
• QMF commands
• QMF procedures
• SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT
• Data aggregation
• Joined and nested queries
• Creating DB2 tables
• DB2 objects
• DB2 system catalog tables
• QMF forms
• Report tailoring
• Batch QMF

Exercises

There are eight machine exercises.

Special Note

This course's content overlaps heavily with the material in course G-550 (SQL Coding Workshop)