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Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS

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Support for TIBCO

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about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Ability to refresh a single Map and not the entire Maplib in batch

Modify the AVZMREFB REXX to allow for the refresh of a single VSAM MAP and not the entire Maplib. When controlling the refresh of VSAM maps in a batch environment where the VSAM files are reloaded frequently there is the need to control the refres...
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Refresh all DVM's sharing the same map dataset

In multi-LPAR environments, we will have a single DVM subsystem running across more than one LPAR. When maps are created in DVM, we would want all instances of DVM that are sharing the same map dataset to be refreshed.
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Support for AES_256 ciphers in DVM Studio secure connections

Currently with DVM Studio v1.1.53 it is not possible to establish a secure TLSv1.2 connection to the z/OS DVM server using AES_256 ciphers. Attempts to connect securely using an AES_256 cipher result in the following error: An error occurred while...
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow users to navigate to next zoom trace via a PF key

Currently, when looking at zoom information in multiple sequential trace entries, the user has to PF3 to back out of the current zoom, re-position the cursor on the next line and then press enter. After every PF3, the cursor returns to the top of ...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ANSI SQL-99 Support in DVM

A customer recently conducted a PoC using DVM and z/OS Connect as an alternative to an existing ETL based system which does nightly offloads of IMS data from the mainframe into a SQL Server database which is accessed by client applications. The e...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Software configuration management capabilities

We need the ability to manage the components (virtual tables, virtual views, etc.) generated by DVM in our software configuration management (SCM) system in order for them to be part of our DevOpts pipeline. Using the current batch utility (AVZGNM...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Allow columns to be deleted when creating Virtual Tables

During the creation of Virtual Tables, there will be scenarios where some columns should be excluded. Allowing this choice during creation would be much better than editing the VT afterwords. This is especially important when certain columns are c...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Multi-Factor Authentication support in DVM Studio

Currently DVM Studio stores the previous passwords for both the Server and JDBC connections. MFA users need the ability to turn off this feature as the token will be different for every logon.
29 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

Adding support for missing CCSIDs from OpenJDK 11

Because of replacing internal JDK in DVM from IBM SDK Java V8 to OpenJDK 11, DVM lost some CCSID support and we experienced several Japanese CCSID issues. As the workaround, the development team kindly provided special build of DVM studio using IB...
about 2 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review