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Data Management Console

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Restrict Users from creating jobs

We would like to restrict certain users from creating new jobs and executing them using DMC. Due to the strict data access and tightened restrictions for offshore team due to the work from home process in place, we would like the offshore team to ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Monitor to check for last successful db2 backup.

Monitor to check for last successful db2 backup. Useful to ensure availability. Simply checks for last successful backup with the threshold being number of days since last successful backup
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Not under consideration

DSM HADR data collection is missing Primary_member_host information on repository database

View - healthmetrics.HADR_STATS contains Db2 HADR Standby host details but does not contain primary member host details. The details is required to pinpoint the active side/primary when the DSM connection is setup using alternate client reroute pr...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Email notification for password expiration

The current version of Db2 Warehouse on Cloud supports the enforcement of password policies and setting a duration of password validity before expiration, however there is no option to send email notifications to users to warn them that their pass...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Connection Monitor Percentage VS Numeric Static Value

In Monitoring Profiles>Alerts Monitoring>Connections , you can only set a static value for Critical and Warning Thresholds. I would like the ability to be able to set a percentage of a certain total. Those totals could come from the database...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Allow a single SMTPE to be used for multiple DIREs

We have a need for IT administrative staff to have 2 profiles. One with lesser permissions for everyday tasks and one with additional monitoring and security. Both profiles need the ability to run the SNDSMTPEMM command form within various applica...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Test Shell Button for access by shell

In the Connection Profiles you have to add username and password for accessing Db2. As well there's a button 'Test connection' to test the connection. When you define user defined alerts in your monitoring profile you're able to define sql and she...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Send alert in case no connection to database could be performed

We have several times the situation that DSM is not able to connect to a database.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Limitation on Visibility of the Schemas on DB2 Warehouse On cloud console

For all the user on DB2 warehouse on cloud, we want to restrict the visibility of the schemas for which they don't have access to. Which means the users should only see those schemas on which they are Read/ write access and nothing else. Please le...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Implement Advisors for recommendations

Would be nice to have advisors and alerts in order to identify need of memory adjustments, table reorging, report the need of collecting statistics, database backups and other important things that DBA should be aware in order to guarantee a good ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration