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Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS

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Support Silent Switch Installations for DVM Studio, JDBC Drivers and ODBC Drivers

At our site users do not have the option to download and install software on their work computers unless that software has been approved and made available from an internal central software download site. Users do not have administrative rights an...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

JDBC gateway managment and installation improvements

We have segregation of duties in our environment and very strict use of super user authority. Who install the product, install it using a specific RACF group. The start/stop of the JDBC process will be given by the userid of the automation tool, o...

Export/Import from JDBC gateway file location

From JDBC gateway administrative console Selecting file > export The export of the Personal Data Sources has a pre-defined path (on server) that is not changeable and indicates the installation path by default. While the export of Repositories ...

Enhance Jgate to support Active Directory ID authentication

The Problem: We have enterprise wide roll out of active directory authentication and Currently Jgate does not support it. Proposed solutions: Enhance Jgate to support Active Directory ID authentication The Benefits/Value: We will have all the bene...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enable DVM Access through Visual Studio Code

The Scenario: Currently we use Visual Studio Code for all development activities. Visual Studio Code acts as a single workstation. It is rich in libraries and plugins for distributed environments and Cloud environments. By using the ZOWE plug in, ...
about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

JDBC gateway change of mount point

During unmounting the zfs and remounting it on to another path we have lost Data sources, we would like this to not happen.
11 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Virtual Table Name should be longer than 50 characters.

When creating Virtual tables we decided as standard to maintain the default Target Virtual Table Name that is build as follow: ConncectionName_Schema_Tablename In some cases this turns out to be longer than 50 chars. and when trying to create it s...
9 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Impossibility to close the previously opened session in the Administrative Console

The client claims that if they go outside the Administrative console without logout, to log in again, they have to wait for the logout timeout because the system does not allow them to close the previous session.
10 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Suppressing RACF messages and security error messages for internal metadata calls triggered by DVM Studio

A new DVM server parameter will be added to suppress the RACF log messages and SMF recording for internal DVM calls. This new approach is to redesign the way to handle both the security error messages for internal metadata calls triggered by DVM S...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Is a defect

JDBC Gateway import uses /tmp

On JGate the export and Import of Personal Data and Repositories and JDBC Library is an activity that needs to be done for several reasons. When importing the settings.zip file a fileuplaod* directory is created in tmp, this has caused space short...
8 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration