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Data Management Console

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IBM Data Management Console scheduled reports in PDF format

Currently the "Create scheduled report" only allows a URL of the report to be sent out in an email. This is to request a PDF attachment option made available so that users can access it directly in their emails instead of logging on to DMC to view...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

DMC - Encryption of the AES128 key at rest

In IBM Db2 DMC, For the AES128 encryption key that is used to encrypt all the keystore pwd, DB2 and Service Account credentials, there is a security finding on the Insecure storage of data encryption keys – i.e. the AES128 DEK is stored unencrypte...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Provide the ability to use db2audit data in the DMC.

Please provide a way to store db2audit data in DMC and to easily view, use, and report on audit logs. Currently db2luw can only store and extract audit data, but there is no repository db and no way to use it. I hope DMC will have such a feature a...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Revision of the DMC installation

We're trying to install DMC in our environment, but we're having some issues with it: - documentation for the Linux installation is not complete - why is the db pagesize for the reprodb 8 k and uses EXTENDED_ROW_SZ? Db pagesize 32 without EXTENDED...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

DMC for P10 systems (pLinux)

Provide ability to administer, monitor, manage and optimize the performance of IBM Db2 on the P10 systems.
11 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Quick Search should trigger a data refresh

Please refer to case TS014307927 for details. Quick Search on all DMC views does not enforces a new query to either the repository or to the monitored DB. It only searches on pre-loaded data in the browser , which is not a complete set of data. Fo...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Increase the db2 licence limit for the DMC repository db.

16 VPC is a 2 VP value based on my server.(2core) I have more than 15 DBs to monitor, but the licence limit makes it difficult to increase the CPU. I apologize for the lack of clarity in my explanation. The bundled DB2 license for the DMC repos...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Not under consideration

DMC - "Other Waits" detail graphic needs to be dynamic and smarter

DMC v3.1.12 decided to create a fixed bucket named "Other Times" under "Other Waits" main category on Database Time Spent monitor page.. Please see attached screen-shot. In the main graphic, we can see "other Waits" is the most contributor. And in...
11 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

DMC alert on timeout , deadlock

it would be useful to have an alert that sends an alert message as soon as a timeout or deadlock appears in the db2diag.log (ex: error message ADM5506W)
2 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...
7 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted