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Search results: Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS

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Adding a search box for IMS Definitions when creating Virtual Tables

Currently, when creating IMS Virtual Tables, users must select a DBD and PSB from a dropdown list. However, since these follow a naming convention, finding the correct DBD or PSB can be time-consuming and inefficient. To improve usability, I propo...
8 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Modernizing ADABAS: Optimizing INSERT into Adabas Virtual Tables

One of the key points in a modernization project for a site with Adabas is to “normalize” Adabas Data Model. DVM offers a normalized Data Model for any Adabas file, converting MU/PE fields into auxiliary Tables. This normalization has a cost: you ...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Messages improvements

From DVM Studio when selecting a BIGSQL table that the user is not authorized to, we get back a misleding Column metadata error. We would like to have a better handling of this situation.
9 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable instances of a virtual table using a PSB/PCB using a PROCSEQ to use an alternate index (non-root)

Per IBM instances of a virtual table using a PSB/PCB using a PROCSEQ to use an alternate index are only supported for indexes on the ROOT segment. This severely impacts performance for DVM access to IMS data which performs well via IMS using secon...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 3 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...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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

Upgrade log4j jar file in DVM JDBC driver

The Scenario : Using the latest DVM JDBC Driver, users issue an import command on Apache Sqoop to do a parquet file conversion. The Problem: The error “java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'org.apache.logging.log4j.Level org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionCon...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Use Data Stage data map as input to DVM Virtual Table definition

Currently Data Stage users who want to use DVM, must convert the Data Stage metadata maps to COBOL copybooks to be used when defining a DVM virtual table. It would be more efficient to the user to use the Data Stage metadata map as input to the DV...
almost 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Utilize IMS Catalog when creating virtual tables

Per IBM direction, we are currently working towards fully populating the IMS catalog. This catalog could be used in a similar manner to the Db2 catalog when creating DVM virtual tables. Instead of providing the DBD, PSB and copybooks when creating...
almost 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

DVM Query Optimization Utility tool

The SQL Select statement used to define a virtual table or virtual view can be a complex one with multiple levels of JOIN operators, predicates and SQL special functions nested together. It will be handy for developers to have a utility tool that ...
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration