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My votes: 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 ...
3 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

Alert or Threshold Based on Number of Execution of SQL Query

We have noticed that customer is facing database failover issue when number of execution of any one query is very high which is utilizing all of the system resources. Is there any feasiblity of creating alert/threshold on number of execution of qu...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

Generating monitor report by schema name in Data Management Console

When creating monitor reports in DMC, the granularity for reports is the whole database, e.g. reports can be generated only at the database level. If there are several schemas in the same database, the abbility to generate reports at the schema le...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

Customized Refresh Interval for "Databases" page like DMS did.

Hello. DMC doens't provide a Customized Refresh Interval for "Databases" page like DSM did. According to Case TS010513163, the refresh interval is 5 minutes and can't be changed. Neither the Rest APIs can change that behavior. I would request a bu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

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...
9 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

DMC - Encryption of the AES128 key at rest

In IBM Db2 DMC, For the AES128 encryption key that is used to encrypt all the keystore pwd, DB2 and Service Account credentials, there is a security finding on the Insecure storage of data encryption keys – i.e. the AES128 DEK is stored unencrypte...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

Suggestion for display every sql statement of the connection

Suggested ImprovementAdd an "SQL Texts" column to allow users to easily display all SQL statements for every connection detail. This would enhance flexibility when addressing issues with problematic connections in the path: Monitor > Applicatio...
2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Revision of the DMC installation

We're trying to install DMC in our environment, but we're having some issues with it: - documentation for the Linux installation is not complete - why is the db pagesize for the reprodb 8 k and uses EXTENDED_ROW_SZ? Db pagesize 32 without EXTENDED...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

DMC (Data Managment console) -- Multi factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method that requires the user to provide two or more verification factors to gain access to a resource such as an application, online account, or a VPN. MFA is a core component of a strong ide...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

Better Graphs and no sortheap spikes after DMC

More clarity of graphs values, easier to interpret graphs Sort heap spikes cause perf issues after DMC, No spikes i future versions will improve DB performance for all
5 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review