IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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    Support data replication with Fieldproc attribute from DB2 on z/os

    The mirroring always fails when the source table contains columns with Fieldproc attribute, those columns could be part of the pimary key which can not be neglected. When it comes to using Remote source agent, the replication throws the next error...
    3 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

    In-Place Version Rollback Support for IBM CDC Replication Engines After Upgrade Enhancement Title

    Problem Statement Software upgrades inherently carry risk. Even with thorough pre-production validation, production environments can expose behaviors, performance regressions, or defects that only manifest under specific data volumes, source/targe...
    22 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    Native Support for Dynamic Credential Retrieval from External Secrets Vaults in IBM CDC Replication Engines

    Problem Statement Many enterprises — particularly in regulated industries such as banking, financial services, and healthcare — are required by corporate security governance and compliance frameworks to enforce mandatory, scheduled password rotati...
    22 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    Expose Source MySQL GTID / GTID UID in IBM CDC Replication Journal or Control Fields

    Requirement / Enhancement Request: We would like to request an enhancement in IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (CDC) for MySQL source databases to make the Source MySQL GTID / GTID UID information available at the target side as part of the CDC rep...
    4 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    CI/CD Expert - support shared-environment deployment for structurally identical objects across subsidiary databases

    Our organization splits identical Db2 objects (same tablespace and table names) across multiple databases (EDCAD001, EDCAD002, EDCAD003, and so on) to satisfy governmental regulatory separation between business subsidiaries. CI/CD Expert currently...
    29 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Edward J Lynch

    Certain target Datastores supported by FlexRep, for example Databricks Delta Lake, do not provide for row-level locking, in particular the ability to have row level locking against the CDC metadata table for the CDC bookmarks. Whenever, a CDC inst...
    9 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

    Global Control over Automatic Disabling of DATA CAPTURE CHANGES

    Current Behavior: When a subscription is deleted or a table is removed from replication, IBM CDC automatically issues an ALTER TABLE to disable the DATA CAPTURE CHANGES flag on the source Db2 tables. This is governed by the system parameter alter_...
    6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    RECON contention - IMS Log Reader Service to Use VERSION=2.0 DBRC API calls and READONLY=YES on the STARTDBRC call.

    We currently have more than one active Classic CDC Capture agent executing. As shown in the screenshot attached, our concern is that IQ1CDC1 and IQ1CDC are enqueueing on the IMS RECON dataset which can cause banking transaction delays. As you can ...
    about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    Enhancement Proposal: SAML and OpenID Connect Integration for IIDR Access Server

    This proposal suggests an enhancement to the IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Access Server to support modern authentication and authorization mechanisms using SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).Currently, authentication mechanisms may rely ...
    4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

    Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

    Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
    11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Is a defect

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