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Please certify the product IBM Data Replication IMS for z/OS Remote Source to run on zCX and/or Red Hat Openshift

We’ve achieved excellent results with the Db2 for Remote Source product, as it has significantly reduced CPU usage on the mainframe—an area where traditional data replication has historically been one of the top resource consumers. With the introd...
4 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Provide patch for bypassing SD for recursive workload. This is available in 7.3.2

We have recursive workload apps which creates thousands of sessions to another app which causes SD to become unresponsive and reject connection requests. This patch will help resolve this issue. This is available on 7.3.2 as per Directly connectin...
20 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Under review

Implement Task Response limit in Spectrum Symphony

I would like to request a feature enhancement for Spectrum Symphony which would allow to implement a Task Response limit. If the Task Response is above the defined limit then either Symphony should fail the task OR not return the Task response rat...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Under review

CHCCLP - Return Code Handling in Mainframe and LUW platform

Provide return codes for individual CHCCLP instructions and add features to CHCCLP script to evaluate return code (e.g., if...then...else...) before proceeding with subsequent instructions. Additionally, include an option to set return codes back ...
5 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

For IBM Change Data Capture create documentation for the SYSCAC catalog objects

This is would be very for those installing and supporting IBM Classic Change Data Capture For IMS. At this time, the Classic catalog (including SYSCAC tables) is not documented in the same way as the Db2 SYSIBM catalog. Documenting this informatio...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Enable Symphony to automatically recover Master and SSM pod states even when their IP addresses change after failure recovery

IBM Platform Symphony currently supports automatic failure recovery of the Master and SSM instances when they rejoin the cluster with the same IP address. However, in environments where Master and SSM pods are orchestrated (e.g., Kubernetes), reco...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client (Fukuoka Financial Group) is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Cl...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Deprecated throw call

There are throw (...) in symphonyDE/DE732/7.3.2/include/soam.h. This pattern repeats on many lines. throw (...) was deprecated in c++11 and was removed in 17. Please remove the throw part. There are ways to make it compatible with all 11:3
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Symphony Host Factory leverages OpenShift/Kubernetes capacities

Requesting support for a Symphony cluster deployed on-premise (existing standalone hosts) to use Host Factory to scale out to OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters (on-prem or in public cloud). It is our understanding that this is not supported by the cur...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Customizable ManagementHosts Resource group

I would like to request that IBM consider adding enhanced flexibility to the Multicluster SMC software by allowing the Management resource group to be customizable. Specifically, to have the ability to add a new resource group in addition to the s...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review