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Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS

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Add support for accessing I-SERIES DB2 data from DVM

DVM does not currently support access to I-SERIES DB2 data. We have I-SERIES applications that would benefit from using DVM.
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Encrypt password in the DVM JDBC Gateway credential management system

Royal Bank of Canada and likely other customers have the following need. With DVM and the QMF Server and the JDBC Gateway the credential management system of Globals and the AVZDRATH job will be a security\auditing issue. 1) If the users are mappe...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Enable HTTPS access to the JDBC Gateway admin console via key ring

JGate was most recently enhanced to allow secure access by adding a keystore and password to the startServer script. While functional, this is a security exposure. We would like to use a RACF key ring instead.
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support schema in DVM

We wish to have the possibility with the DVM and UNIXODBC connector to access the DL1 segments using the concepts of "schema" and / or "alias"
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Ability to delete maps via REST

Currently a REST call is being used by our DevOps pipeline to create/modify maps. We need the ability to delete maps as well.
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Provide detailed information about User Exit interface in product manual

Some of the IBM software products such as IMS, Db2 and Db2 HPU, etc. provide User Exit interface to enhance the product's capability to customers' particular requirements. Such products usually have a corresponding chapter or appendix in their pro...
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide "SQL Reference" product manual for DVM

(This IDEA item was written based on my own experience in DVM POC test at customer site.) So far, DVM does not provide "SQL Reference" kind of product manual which describes SQL syntax rules supported by DVM. Somebody said it is because DVM is co...
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Add latest version of the log4j API to the DVM distribution

The log4j that ships with DVM is not the latest version available online (at https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/download.html). We need the flexibility of using any log4j jar.
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Add schema support to DVS

In our test environments we have the same Db2 tables on the same Db2 subsystem under different schemas. This allows for multiple teams to be testing against different sets of data, and potentially different version of table DDL at the same time. B...
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Allow for the fabrication of RUNSTATS

In most cases, the collection of runstats requires access to the underlaying data. This access is typically not available to the DVM support team. Those with access to the data will likely not have access to modify global variables outside of Dev....
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered