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Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS

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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...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future 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...
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

VS Code Extension for IBM Data Virtualization Manager

Recently , there is a wide adoption of VS Code IDE among the developer community , a VS Code extension of IBM DVM with all the functions as similar to DVM Studio.
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Identify Adabas return code by DVM

The DVM enhancement to pass the ADABAS TLSCMD parm overridee works as designed and we can see it being passed to Adabas. If the value of the ADABASCMDTIMELIMIT parameter exceeds the maximum allowed by Adabas, it gives us the error RC=7, an error d...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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.
almost 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add AWS support to DVM

As more of our users begin to move portions of their application and data to public and private cloud environments, we are seeing an increased desire to present a complete picture of the data across mainframe and distributed platforms. Adding AWS ...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Refresh all DVM's sharing the same map dataset

In multi-LPAR environments, we will have a single DVM subsystem running across more than one LPAR. When maps are created in DVM, we would want all instances of DVM that are sharing the same map dataset to be refreshed.
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Enable sampling for RUNSTATS

Currently RUNSTATS for non-Db2 virtual tables or virtual views will pull all data from the map and then calculate the stats values. When millions of records are present, the process begins to exceed the subsystem limits on cpu and memory. We would...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

AVZLINE support for outbound connections

We have a REXX script named REXUSER, provided a few years ago, that processes connections for ACI/Adabas users. It issues command RXRC = AVZRXPC(SUBSYS,'DISPLAY', 'REMU', 500, 1920 ) then parses the line details. We would like to use this (or simi...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration