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Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS

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Mass creation or migration of Virtual Target System maps

Our goal is to use the same VTS names in our formal test environments that are used in production so that developers do not need to change them during the import/export process. On the test environments, we simply point the VTS's to the test endpo...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

JGate log file cleanup

We need a way to limit the number of log files that JGate will create.
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

before DVM termination, wait for seconds which defined in CLIENTQUIESCEDELAY until there are no PSB scheduled with DVM.

DVM v1.1 IMS v13 With above env, we issued /P AVZS to terminate DVM while PSB is still scheduled. Then, it caused U3398 error of that application. We believe that termination command should wait till application will be stopped, or at le...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future 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). ...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support for Db2 Image Copy

Support for Db2 Image Copy. Overall support for full and incremental read-only access to Db2 base table copies for the purposes of accessing archival data, expanded exploitation and JOIN of existing Dbz and non-Db2z datasets for single point of ac...
about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Validate SQL should simply validate whether the SQL is valid to execute

Currently, while in editing SQL in DVM Studio, you can highlight the SQL and choose "Validate SQL". This option will run the same logic used when creating a view and flag, for example, duplicate column names as an error. In this case the flagged S...
about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable granular trace option for IDF QRYDTA and CNTQRY messages

We would like to be prevent the following messages from being logged in trace browse due to the high number of messages for a large result set. IDF Req 022876 CNTQRY IDF Rpy 022876 QRYDTA
about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under 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 ...
about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release