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Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS

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Provide CDC integration with DVM

Provide the ability for DVM to interface with CDC for both VSAM and IMS data sources. Support a mechanism to keep DVM extracted data up to date to meet SLAs related to data currency.
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Use Data Stage data map as input to DVM Virtual Table definition

Currently Data Stage users who want to use DVM, must convert the Data Stage metadata maps to COBOL copybooks to be used when defining a DVM virtual table. It would be more efficient to the user to use the Data Stage metadata map as input to the DV...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Exploit the data that RMF is generating in online mode

GISS wants to exploit the data that RMF is generating in online mode, that is, to exploit the data that RMF is holding online. Probably an easy way is to access the VSAM file where RMF keeps the data, but we don’t know the record layout. We see th...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add ability to find map dependencies

Before deleting a map, we would like a way to find any other dependent maps. Virtual views that reference the map Web Services that reference the map Virtual tables pointing to other virtual tables on the same (or different) subsystems
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

NEVER fall back to IMS DBCTL when SQL is not eligible for IMS Direct

We have a requirement to restrict access to IMS Direct only. Users should not have access to IMS Online. In DVM when an SQL is not eligible for IMS Direct DVM directs the SQL to IMS Online despite IMS Online not being enabled in DVM. There is no o...
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DVM Query Optimization Utility tool

The SQL Select statement used to define a virtual table or virtual view can be a complex one with multiple levels of JOIN operators, predicates and SQL special functions nested together. It will be handy for developers to have a utility tool that ...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enable DVM Studio to be able to quickly capture environment data needed for problem resolution

We are sometimes asked to provide detailed information for a Case we have opened on DVM. Information includes the current build, IN00, trace browse, map definitions and sometimes the underlying data that is causing the issue. If functionality was ...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add support for Postgres UUID and JSONB data types

Add support for Postgres UUID and JSONB data types
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration