On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:18:05 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


>
>I consider myself lucky not to have had to support QMF in many years, when I
>did, I thought it also ran under CICS. IIRC, that would be the reason it was
>not an ISPF application. Once developers get the notion to run in multiple
>environments, they want to ignore environment specific technologies in order
>to use the same code base. QMF did not sell enough graphics capable
>terminals so complaints must have poured in to remove the GDDM overhead.
>

QMF still supports the use of GDDM.   What I think changed was QMF
initialization.
It used to check for GDDM and if it wasn't available would terminate.   Perhaps
a DB2 type can tell us when.  Around V5 I think - maybe even V4.  

Mark
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