Comparison of features

This topic provides a comparison of features between IBM® Data Server Manager and IBM Db2® Data Management Console.

Continued features and behavior changes
  • Enterprise monitoring home page with public tagging support.
  • Detailed real-time and historical monitoring.
  • Database and object privilege management.
  • 'Run SQL' feature.
  • Alert feature.

    The following alerts are supported:

    • Log space
    • Connections
    • Table space drop pending
    • Table space backup pending
    • Table space container utilization
    • Table space quiesced
    • Table space container state
    • Table space state
    • Table space utilization
    • Table invalid
    • Degree of secondary log allocation
    • Log space used by dirty pages
    • HADR primary database blocked from writing to the log File
    • HADR database not ready for role switch
    • HADR database disconnected
    • Incomplete recovery
    • Database partition availability
    • Buffer pool hit ratio
    • Buffer pool asynchronous write ratio
    • Buffer pool asynchronous read ratio
    • Catalog cache hit ratio
    • Application connections with excessive lock waits over request time
    • Package cache hit ratio
    • Rows read per fetched row
    • Rollback transactions
    • Database availability - Only UNREACHABLE is supported.
  • Manage database objects
  • SNMP notification support
  • Native installer for Linux®, Windows, MacOS, and AIX® systems.
  • Email notification feature.
  • Visual explain feature.
  • IBM Db2 Data Management Console v3.1.1 and above, provides support for connectivity and enables monitoring capabilities for Db2 for z/OS® version 11 and above. This includes monitoring dashboard for Db2 for z/OS connections.
Future roadmap
  • Connection profile rule-based tag functions.
  • Db2 instance management feature.
  • Some database objects, including 'Bufferpool'.
  • 'Optimize' feature.
  • 'Configuration management' feature (including 'Configurations' function within administrator feature, 'Managed clients' function within monitor feature and 'Control Clients' function within optimize feature.)
  • Severity customization of alert monitor profile.
New features
  • Team collaboration through copy and paste URL navigation for GIT and Notebook integration.
  • Open RESTful services API support

To learn about new features in the current and previous releases of IBM Db2 Data Management Console, see the following web page: IBM Db2 Data Management Console Version 3.1.x releases: new features and enhancements.