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Data Management Console

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Consolidated Database Availability (weekly/monthly) Report.

Data Management Console currently doesn't have a capability to generate a weekly/monthly "Database Availability" report of all the Databases that are being monitored. This enhancement needs to be added so that DMC can generate a report which shoul...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

DMC - Display Fine Grained Access Control (FGAC) values of Column Masks and Row Permissions for each Table

This would be a useful feature to allow DBAs to not have to leave the DMC tool and use a different tool to verify the FGAC items are in place for various tables in a Database. The DSM tool had a Tab FGAC that would display the FGAC values in place...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Limit query for DMC Storage panel to active tables

Limit query scope for storage panel to active tables. Query on a peoplesoft DB takes 53 min whereas limiting scope to active tables (MON_GET_TABLE), it takes < 5 min. On Peoplesoft DB, we have about 65K tables when only 7K are used.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Restrict Users from creating jobs

We would like to restrict certain users from creating new jobs and executing them using DMC. Due to the strict data access and tightened restrictions for offshore team due to the work from home process in place, we would like the offshore team to ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

JOB Section required SNMP

Hi Team, We are having JOB section which runs few scripts, but when any failure for it we are looking to have SNMP enabled . We require SNMP to be enabled as we want any JOB Failure to act within SLA without any miss.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Integrated Pacemaker

Hi Team, For all databases greater than V11.5.7.0 we are planning to start deploying DB2 Integrated Pacemaker cluster setup which requires monitoring such as : If cluser is not ready to move Standby node. If VIP is not up. If Cluster is in Maintai...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Outstanding Archive Log Generation

Hi Team, We have alert in DMC to check if any failed archivals to send an alert. Can we have alert if any outstanding logs more than 10-20 are not archived to send an alert which can help us to track how many logs are not archived and why its missed.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Log Generation Rate Monitoring

Hi Team, We are seeing huge log generation on daily basis. Can we get the Log generation rate monitoring in report section so we can try to schedule on daily basis to send E-mail notification to review for Critical databases the flow coming in.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Backup Monitoring and alerting is not available

Hi Team, In DMC we are not able to check the backup status via console or alert is not enabled if backup is not available more than 3 days for Non-PROD and more than one day for PROD. At present we running via UDA to check the backup status as fea...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Centralized Path in DMC server to run Jobs or UDA

HI Team, We are running few scripts via Jobs or UDA, but if any script to be run we need to place script in all database servers where we need to run it which is huge manual process to do it. Kindly help to get the Centralized path enabled in DMC ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration