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Search results: Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS

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JDBC gateway managment and installation improvements

We have segregation of duties in our environment and very strict use of super user authority. Who install the product, install it using a specific RACF group. The start/stop of the JDBC process will be given by the userid of the automation tool, o...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Export/Import from JDBC gateway file location

From JDBC gateway administrative console Selecting file > export The export of the Personal Data Sources has a pre-defined path (on server) that is not changeable and indicates the installation path by default. While the export of Repositories ...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

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 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add support for accessing I-SERIES DB2 data from DVM

DVM does not currently support access to I-SERIES DB2 data. We have I-SERIES applications that would benefit from using DVM.
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Provide detailed information about User Exit interface in product manual

Some of the IBM software products such as IMS, Db2 and Db2 HPU, etc. provide User Exit interface to enhance the product's capability to customers' particular requirements. Such products usually have a corresponding chapter or appendix in their pro...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add schema support to DVS

In our test environments we have the same Db2 tables on the same Db2 subsystem under different schemas. This allows for multiple teams to be testing against different sets of data, and potentially different version of table DDL at the same time. B...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Specify User Exit routine name when defining IMS-DB virtual table

In Japan, most IMS user customers, especially in financial sector, have their roll-your-own program modules called "DBI" (database interface), and database access must be made through DBI always. DBI provides, for example, data compression/de-comp...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Apply Copybook when defining Db2 for z/OS virtual table

(This IDEA item was written based on a customer requirement revealed in DVM POC test at customer site.) So far, customer cannot apply COBOL copybook (assembler DSECT, PL/I DCL statements, etc. also) when defining DBMS (RDBMS) virtual table includi...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Allow for the fabrication of RUNSTATS

In most cases, the collection of runstats requires access to the underlaying data. This access is typically not available to the DVM support team. Those with access to the data will likely not have access to modify global variables outside of Dev....
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

UNION ALL of 2 or more Db2 subsystems uses a lot of memory

Enhance server to check for “UNION ALL” and skip buffering, allowing the data to flow back to client
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered