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My ideas: Data Management Console

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I'd like to be able to push alerts from DMC to my central monitoring teams and tool (SquaredUp in my case). Or get an API to get alerts.

I'm running Data Management Console 3.1.12 to monitor and manage 125 database in our production environment. Today, the only way I found to get database alerts is to schedule a script that reads the alerts from my repository database and puts the ...
20 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Submitted

Data Management Console: Using for monitoring the current Event Monitor Data, which are configured (DB2STATISTICS, DB2ACTIVITIES, DB2THRESHOLDS)

Using for monitoring the current Event Monitor Data, which are configured (DB2STATISTICS, DB2ACTIVITIES, DB2THRESHOLDS)
2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Data Management Console: Allow the configuration of users by commands

Currently the configuration of users is via LDAP or manual via GUI. This idea is about using commands to configure users (adding / deleting user + role ).
2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Data Management Console: Ability to upload own Driver / Wrapper and also specify the class of the driver during the definition of connection to a Db2 database

When a connection to a Db2 database is defined in the Data Management Console, the today it’s predefined driver with server, port, database and enabling of SSL. The customer would prefer to have their own authentication to have the ability to uplo...
2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Breakdown of Estimated performance gain percent value for each Recommended Indexes (Used in Plan = "Y") in WhatIf Analysis

As per attached screenshot, there are 4 recommended indexes together provide 42.62% of Estimated Performance again if they are created. Its not possible to pick any one or two indexes instead of all the four indexes. If 1 of the 4 recommended inde...
6 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

DMC alert on timeout , deadlock

it would be useful to have an alert that sends an alert message as soon as a timeout or deadlock appears in the db2diag.log (ex: error message ADM5506W)
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Quick Search should trigger a data refresh

Please refer to case TS014307927 for details. Quick Search on all DMC views does not enforces a new query to either the repository or to the monitored DB. It only searches on pre-loaded data in the browser , which is not a complete set of data. Fo...
12 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

DMC - "Other Waits" detail graphic needs to be dynamic and smarter

DMC v3.1.12 decided to create a fixed bucket named "Other Times" under "Other Waits" main category on Database Time Spent monitor page.. Please see attached screen-shot. In the main graphic, we can see "other Waits" is the most contributor. And in...
10 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

IBM Database Management Console Migration

Hi All, We have learned that the IBM DMC(Database Management Console) doesn't have any inbuilt migration opportunities presented by itself. The migration that involves moving DMC from one host to another with minimal downtime and configuration...
6 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Build a mechanism to validate Database compliance as per Nestle Standards by using DMC (Data Management Console) tool.

Why is it useful? DMC tool will help to interconnect all DB2 Server's at single point which we can call as central/master server and help to monitor the Database Compliance and server resource's utilization. Who would benefit from it? Database tea...
2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted