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Only allow access to AVZMAPP files in the context of DVM (Studio, ISPF, etc.)

Currently, developers must be granted read/write access directly to the MAP datasets in order to create virtual tables. Developer access to these datasets should only be allowed within the context of the DVM provided interfaces (DVM Studio, ISPF, ...
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Log File Rotation

Request for adding capability to manage log file rotation for log files within user deployment directory. Please see support case TS002308568 for more info.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Future consideration

BAR_RETRY should retry failed dbspace backup instead of complete archive

If you run a whole onbar backup (onbar -b -w -L 0) and have several dbspaces to backup and one dbspace backup failsthe complete archive must be retried. If you run parallel backup (BAR_MAX_BACKUP > 0) you also need to wait untilall dbspaces are...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Inference job restarts a few times based on task exit code

During running an inference job, when a task fails and returns non-0 exit code. The inference engine should be able to retry the inference task for defined number of times should it detect non-0 exit code from the inference task.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 1 Future consideration

Able to set time for model training start and duration

Before start a training job, it will be better if we can specify when the training job should be started and for how long the training job should run. DLI can have the job stopped or suspended if the job runs exceeds the specified duration.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Future consideration

Allow duplicate Dataset, Model names among different SIGs

In a multi-tenant environnent like ours. It is very common that different tenant will use same dataset, model for their work. Thus the chances are very high for each of them to use the same name for dataset, models. Currently when you use the same...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Future consideration

Resource Usage View

The Resource Group usage on Admin Dashboard is not very user friendly and requires a bit of digging to understand the metrics appropriately. Please provide an enhancement to improve the usability of this feature.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Future consideration

Spark Count Slow Read

Please develop an update to allow Spectrum to read data schema information with multiple executors. Seems to only use 1 or 2 and takes a very long time compared to other YARN based environments that use multiple executors to read the data files fo...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Future consideration

SQL Engine enhancement to support "Db2 mode" SQL syntax rules

(This IDEA item was written based on my own experience in DVM POC test at customer site.) In DVM, SQL syntax rules are based on ANSI-92 standard, not on Db2 for z/OS rules, even in the case where DVM virtual table is defined on Db2 for z/OS table....
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Dashboard

Dear Team, It would be good idea if we have dash board which can help us to understood which sig is down, how many slots are free, resources, failed jobs , logs etc in a single glance in Spectrum conductor. this visualization will help managers to...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Future consideration