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Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS

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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

Support for TIBCO

See the attached
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 3 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

Allow users to navigate to next zoom trace via a PF key

Currently, when looking at zoom information in multiple sequential trace entries, the user has to PF3 to back out of the current zoom, re-position the cursor on the next line and then press enter. After every PF3, the cursor returns to the top of ...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ANSI SQL-99 Support in DVM

A customer recently conducted a PoC using DVM and z/OS Connect as an alternative to an existing ETL based system which does nightly offloads of IMS data from the mainframe into a SQL Server database which is accessed by client applications. The e...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add boolean support for Oracle, Postgres and Db2 z/OS

Currently boolean fields are supported on Db2 LUW but not the DBMS's listed above.
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DVM Inserts into SQL DateTime2 column

Inserts into Datetime2 datatype column is not supported via DVM. APAR number PH34676 has been opened for this. Opening this AHa icket to track APAR.
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add support for a procedural language within DVM

Currently all logic within DVM is encapsulated with the SQL statements. This limits the amount of logic that can be handled within DVM and forces us to potentially make multiple distributed calls to DVM to complete one unit of work. By adding (or ...
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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