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Support DDL replication for watsonx.data through change log business goal

Customer's RFI requested for DDL replication for heterogeneous database type (ie. Oracle to DB2, pgsql to wxd). This is a important feature because they have thousands of daily DDL operations in their production environments and cannot manually tr...
19 days ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted

Flexible Data Replication Across IBM Cloud Pak for Data Clusters for watsonx.data as target

Background: As of now, IBM Data replication has no restrictions to be deployed on specific cluster to replicate data from various sources to targets available, however for users who wants to replicate data using watsonx.data presto connector, the ...
10 months ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 1 Submitted

Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

redirection and compatibility between 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4.0_64’ and 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4’ in 7.1.2 and that in 7.3

From: Dennis Xiao <dxiao@ca.ibm.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:28 PM To: Stuart, James <james.stuart@ubs.com>; Jeff Karmiol <jkarmiol@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Liao, Jiabin <jiabin.liao@ubs.com>; Qiu, David <david.qiu@ubs.co...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

User exits on Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data

Currently, user exits are not supported on Data Replication for CP4D. It would be good to support this to enable customers to migrate from InfoSphere Data Replication (CDC) that are currently using user exits. Thanks!
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted

From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute).

From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute). We are requesting you please provide us the export functionality, so we can export all the data from GUI to the excel spreadsheet. As present there is no s...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Future consideration

AT-TLS configuration assistant

Need to be able to code jobnames with wild cards in beginning or multiple jobnames for one rule
about 9 years ago in Db2 Configuration Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support for SAP HANA in Db2 Replication Service

A large Federal customer has a requirement to replicate, in near real-time, SAP HANA to Db2/Db2Wh. Our documentation page for the Data Replication Service shows that CP4D can support Db2 Warehouse as a target, but that SAP HANA is currently not su...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 2 Submitted

We need ability to update DB password using command line in non-interactive fashion. (Not interactive shell)

We need to update our database account password regularly and in turn we have to update password in database configuration file datasource.xml . This will be automated process in Wells Fargo and we need to be able to run dbconfig.sh command to upd...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

Please provide update for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1 and 7.3.2 to update Spring Boot version to 3.3

Our compliance team is requiring all Spring Boot version be updated to 3.3 since all previous versions are already end of life or approaching end of life in next 30-45 days.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 5 Not under consideration