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"It takes advantage of new features of DB2.""The most important features are batch reporting and the ability to create repositories, enabling automated analysis. These are valuable because they enable me to do automated analysis of trends over time and reduce the time for comparing performance between two periods to identify anomalies.""​It is very stable. We have had no issues.""​It helps us to reduce hardware costs and to optimize processing times.​""Improved monitoring and performance management."

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"SQL DM made troubleshooting much easier and allowed multiple people to look into an issue with confidence.""Monitors and alerts on our mission critical instances in real-time on a 24/7 basis.""The best part of SQL DM is the ability to customize alerts and counters. This allows our team to find an issue then alert on the issue at a granular level.""Memory and CPU utilization features are good.""We're able to diagnose issues prior to their actually becoming issues. Without the alerting, we wouldn't have a clue as to what was going to happen. With the alerting, it gives us a heads-up that a specific threshold has been met, and we need to take specific action.""The most valuable features are disk space projections for planning, and also the Snapshotting ability, to look back in time, to see what was going on the server at a particular time. It's basically the output of an sp_who2.""The ability to go back and look at historical data is the most valuable feature."

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"Minor stability issues.""They need to provide a way to create and maintain performance repositories. The online tool is not perfect, but it is giving me what I need.""All the information we need, we could use to have it in a more usable format.​"

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"The initial setup gives too many user rights to the server, so you have to put a user that is part administrator's group - that's the preferred way - on each server, which is kind of a risk. You want to do least privilege and you're not doing that.""I'm going to do an upgrade which may resolve my issues, but one area for improvement is its ability to handle the amount of data that we collect with it. We're likely one of the largest installations, with over 300 servers being collected with this product, and sometimes there are gaps. That would really be my only concern, in terms of how the data is collected and stored, for consistency.""It would helpful if SQL DM could mark when changes are made within the program.""I would absolutely love to create customized dashboards but, unfortunately, they don't provide me the information that I need to create the report. The report I need is the detail or the transaction detail that's happening on those Snapshots. I'd like to be able to go back through time and search for things. I don't have that functionality, which is very disappointing. That's pretty bad and frustrating because I could query it and find out so much information about what's hitting my environment and when, but instead, they want control over it and to not give me that information. So it's encrypted. I can't pull it out and that is really bothersome.""They can improve checking the status of the CPU, memory, and IO utilization from each task.""One thing I'd like to see is the ability to view the execution plan and have the system automatically recommend potential query optimizations, especially at the query level.""We don't find that it helps us with performance monitoring and diagnostics. We find that SentryOne does that better. Also, in terms of alerts, we had to customize them dramatically so that we didn't get alerted on every little thing."

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  • "The pricing is reasonable, it's comparable with the competitors."
  • "We were upgraded to Premium Support without their actually asking us, when we were quoted. Then I asked for Standard Support and that they had to re-quote us that. But they don't do that by default. They upcharge you by default, which I didn't think was very nice, without even asking."
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    Top Answer:The ability to go back and look at historical data is the most valuable feature.
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    Top Answer:We use it mainly for monitoring, including CPU, memory, and disk space, and for troubleshooting purposes.
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    CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS
    IDERA SQL DM, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager
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    Overview
    Database Management for DB2 for z/OS solutions from CA Technologies provide a set of tools designed to ensure optimal database and SQL performance, efficient administration, and reliable backup and recovery of DB2 databases, systems and apps.

    SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix SQL Server performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides effective scalability, advanced SQL query analysis and optimization, prescriptive analysis with corrective SQL scripts, powerful automated alert responses, broad PowerShell integration, complete customization, and extensive support for current and legacy SQL Server and Windows.

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    CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is ranked 29th in Database Development and Management while IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server is ranked 9th in Database Development and Management with 9 reviews. CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is rated 8.8, while IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS writes "The most useful feature is the ability to create strategies across the products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server writes "Proactively alerts us on a wide variety of issues, but it has not scaled out well with our large environment". CA Database Management for DB2 for zOS is most compared with CA IDMS and CA Datacom, whereas IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server is most compared with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, Quest Spotlight, Redgate SQL Toolbelt, Quest Foglight for Databases and SQL Sentry.

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