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DS popup feature which identifies changed tables, UMS does not have a pop up

In data studio, there is a pop-up when you log in, that tells you that a table has been altered on the mainframe and will need action in accelerator. UMS/Admin Foundation does not have this pop-up. There is a red dot that indicates a table has bee...
7 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow DNS name in IMS notification exit

Right now, as best as I can see, to use the IMS notification exit you must use the IP address in the assembler exit configuration table (CECE1OPT). This requirement to use IP has been frowned upon by our network team, they would prefer a DNS name....

Please certify the product IBM Data Replication IMS for z/OS Remote Source to run on zCX and/or Red Hat Openshift

We’ve achieved excellent results with the Db2 for Remote Source product, as it has significantly reduced CPU usage on the mainframe—an area where traditional data replication has historically been one of the top resource consumers. With the introd...
4 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Select a member of datasharing group

We have multiple members of datasharing group attached to one accelerator. We would like to 'force' Admin Foundation to use one member. We are upgrading our stored procedures soon and would like to make sure that they work on all lpars. So if we w...
13 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow to execute stored procedures from the Explore Objects list or RUN SQL

Application developers and DBAs execute stored procedures directly from Data Studio, Toad for DB2, DBeaver etc. interfaces but it is not possible in DB2 Admin Foundation therefore not very helpfull.
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Please improve the quality of the grpahical output for Visual Explain.

Since Data Studio is now extinct the only way to generate a visual explain graphic is by using DB2 Admin Foundation or VS Code Developer Extension. Unfortunately, the quality of the graphical output for Visual Explain is like something from the 19...
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Provide a Zowe setting to suppress any prompting for a client certificate when accessing Zowe from a browser.

Today we have been forced to use as cumbersome unique set of AT-TLS rules to prevent a user from being prompted for a certificate so they don't select an invalid certificate causing connections to fail outright. We would like to eliminate as much ...
11 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

CHCCLP - Return Code Handling in Mainframe and LUW platform

Provide return codes for individual CHCCLP instructions and add features to CHCCLP script to evaluate return code (e.g., if...then...else...) before proceeding with subsequent instructions. Additionally, include an option to set return codes back ...
6 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client (Fukuoka Financial Group) is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Cl...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

For IBM Change Data Capture create documentation for the SYSCAC catalog objects

This is would be very for those installing and supporting IBM Classic Change Data Capture For IMS. At this time, the Classic catalog (including SYSCAC tables) is not documented in the same way as the Db2 SYSIBM catalog. Documenting this informatio...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Submitted