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Db2 for z/OS Data Gate

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Data gate instance be able to write on more the one S3 Bucket (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, has structured its organization into independent and agile business squads, which is reflected in their data domain organization and data governance. To accommodate this structure, the data architecture requires flexibility. Curr...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

Credentials from HashCorp Vault (Data Gate for watsonx)

Itaú, one of the largest banks in Brazil, is known for its advanced cloud adoption, managing over 8,000 AWS accounts. This model, while providing agility and independence, also increases the complexity and potential security risks. To mitigate the...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

Data gate instance be able to write on Ozone S3 Object Storage of Cloudera (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client want to adopt the Ozone S3 Object Storage of Cloudera to also store data synced from Data Gate for watsonx so that the two platforms can coexist sharing this common layer without requires deploy a new Object Storage class (e.g. Storage ...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

performance improvement for specific replication instance

Need improve deleting synchronization performance for big table with wide unique key column: We see latency keep increasing to 2 hours when batch deleting happen on big table which has ~1 billion rows and unique key includes 11 columns. More detai...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Automatically perform actions when synchronisation is broken on DataGate

In Data Gate, every time someone executes a utility not supported by the product (such as a LOAD without LOG or a schema change in the table) the synchronisation is broken.In these cases, we have to redo an initial load. In other products such as ...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Make it possible to synchronize IMS and VSAM data with CP4D on Linux One

At the present time IBM Data Gate for watsonx is not available for Linux One (only x86).
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Datagate authnetification using user / certificate

« At the present time we’re using Datagate to replicate in a live stream our DB2 z databases on DB2 LUW (Linux one) instances. This replication is done using a fixed user/password to connect to our DB2z instances. As it’s not recommended by our se...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

Select / Deselect All Buttons for Table Selection Pane

When the Data Gate table sync screen is opened and a scheme is selected, all tables are automatically selected. This can be a burden if the user only wants to sync a small subset of the tables and must manually deselect the unnecessary tables, esp...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Table selecting screen is not user friendly.

While selecting tables under a specific schema, by default, all tables are coming as selected. If we need to select only one table, we need to go over all other tables and unselect them. There must be a button to select/deselect all tables.
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Datagate should replicate z/OS indexes

- When adding a table, datagate should offer the opportunity to import, after table loading, zOS existing indexes
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review