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Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS

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Converting ZCEE WOLA to ZCEE JVM

Currently the connection between zCEE and DVM is over WOLA. This setup requires a 1:1 zCEE server for each DVM subsystem that needs to expose web services. We would like to see an alternative interface added that would allow multiple DVMs to be se...
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow third party Service Providers interface to set System of Record Data

Customers of monitoring products like OMEGAMON for JVM want to be able to monitor API connections to third party service providers like DVM. The public third party Service Provider interface does populate any of the So fields for SMF or intercepto...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support for columns with names longer than 30 characters

DVM currently fails when attempting to create virtual tables over source tables with column names longer than 30 characters. DBMS's including Postgres, Oracle and DB2 LUW allow for longer column names.
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow Logon to JDBC Gateway Console via RACF group instead of shared credentials

Currently the logon to each JGate console is via a single id/pw. These credentials must be shared by the support team which is not a best practice. When team members leave, all passwords must be changed (if that's even possible). If changing the p...
almost 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

ODBC UDC support for Big5 and Unicode

We have User Defined Character for codepage 937 and we need ODBC of DVM to provide codepage conversion to Big5 and Unicode for UDC .
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support for TIBCO

See the attached
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Possibility work with UNICODE fields for ADABAS data source

I provide more details later.
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Batch interface to gather statistics, same as ISPF panels

We would like to be able to gather stats using a batch interface. The stats we are interested in are the C.18.1/2, c.12 and the active users
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Exploit RMF online VSAM dataset

We would like the IDAA Loader to be able to exploit RMF online VSAM datasets like with other SMF records i.e. SMF type 70. This way we could easily analyze LPAR performance from the last hours in shorter intervals than from SMF records. A similar ...
about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow for a project view in Studio that only shows maps for a specific user and interfaces with both SCM and DVM servers.

The current Server tab shows all maps for a given DVM subsystem. The main premise of this Aha is that developers typically have a view within an IDE that contains just their project code (linked to their software configuration management system). ...
about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration