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Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS

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Enable migration of REST service at Operation level

We are using DVM REST Service to implement online applications. The business applications are grouped by functionality in various REST Services. Within each application, specific rules are implemented as DVM REST Operation. Application developers ...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Modernizing ADABAS: Optimizing INSERT into Adabas Virtual Tables

One of the key points in a modernization project for a site with Adabas is to “normalize” Adabas Data Model. DVM offers a normalized Data Model for any Adabas file, converting MU/PE fields into auxiliary Tables. This normalization has a cost: you ...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Limit the amount of data retrieved from Teradata in a DVM SQL Query

Since the SQL LIMIT parameter is not supported in Teradata, DVM-Teradata users need the ability to limit the amount of data retrieved from a query to a Teradata database otherwise the query does not come back, DVM chews up CPU trying to process a ...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Enable use of encrypted passwords to test connections to databases in the DVM JGate Server interface

A successful “Test Connection” must be completed to “Add new relational data source name and connection parameters” using the DVM JDBC Gateway Server interface. To perform the “Test Connection” a valid userid and password with access to the data s...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Use RACF resource to control access to DVM JDBC Gateway Server databases

Currently USERID and PASSWORD info needs to be updated and maintained in the DVM AVZDRATH job in order for DVM users to access different DRDA databases. The AVZDRATH job needs to be updated monthly whenever a user’s password changes or when a user...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improve JDBC’s SQLException Error codes

We have observed that, when we get an SQL Exception caused by different situations related to client-server communication issues, we always get an ErrorCode = 0 (((SQLException)sqle).getErrorCode()) For example, in case we have an open connection ...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Adding support for missing CCSIDs from OpenJDK 11

Because of replacing internal JDK in DVM from IBM SDK Java V8 to OpenJDK 11, DVM lost some CCSID support and we experienced several Japanese CCSID issues. As the workaround, the development team kindly provided special build of DVM studio using IB...
7 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add DVM Studio to IBM Installation Manager

We are preparing to license DVM software and implement it across our production systems starting mid-March 2021. Applications are planning initial use of DVM in production starting the end of March 2021 with a full production rollout in June 2021....
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Protect ACI call with program granularity.

Currently you can protect ACI calls adding the resource ACI.Mapname to RACF class. The protection ACI.Mapname protects only the ACI services. When we create a new ACI Stored Procedure we must specify the ACI service we want to use. Suppose we crea...
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DVM studio only showed the partial record_id and skipped all the characters following the low-values. We would like IBM to enhance the DVM Studio to make it display the entire record_id exactly the same way as the DVM Batch does.

DVM studio only showed the partial record_id and skipped all the characters following the low-values. We would like IBM to enhance the DVM Studio to make it display the entire record_id exactly the same way as the DVM Batch does.
8 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration