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Data Management Console

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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)
17 days 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 ).
17 days 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...
17 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

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
26 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Kubernetes Operater for Hosting

There currently is an operator to deploy DB2 in Kubernetes. However, the Mange Console has to be hosted separately. It would be very helpful to have an operator that will also deploy the management console.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

In the "Availability" alerts correct the "Log Space" to operate on current space usage rather than top usage. I don't see this as an enhancement - I see this as a fix for a broken feature.

Currently when you exceed the threshold there is an alert raised. Once the usage drops the alert does not drop. The only way to 'close' the alert is to stop/start the database ('Deactivate') - ie an exclusive outage. In a production database this ...
4 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...
5 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...
5 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

when editing connection you can activate the option to initialize HADR

When editing the connection, the option to initialize HADR will appear on the screen. Today this option is only possible for new connections or databases. However, every old database can become a HADR.
6 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Submitted

More options to generate DDL in DMC

I would like to see more options to include/exclude dependent and ancillary objects when generating DDL for tables. What I need are the Tables, Indexes, History, constraints, and comments, but I don't want views, triggers, stored procedures or oth...
7 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted