Using QMF, you can access data at a remote DB2 database. Then, you can create reports and charts to view the data on your local system. You can connect to the remote database when you start QMF or during a QMF session. You can connect two like (for example, DB2 for OS/390 to DB2 for OS/390) or two unlike (for example, DB2 for OS/390 to DB2 for VM) databases.
When you are connected to a remote database, you access data and objects in the same way that you access them at a local database. QMF continues to use programs that reside at the system in which you are running QMF.
QMF provides two ways to access data at remote locations:
You can connect to multiple remote databases simultaneously from Windows environments by using the QMF for Windows feature. See Appendix D, The QMF High Performance Option for more information.
ROWID and LOB data types are supported in DB2 OS/390 beginning with Version 6. After a connection from an application requester that does not support ROWID and LOB data, the result is unpredictable when you attempt to access data containing these data types.