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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Improvement Refresh performance of multi-view definition segment

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Generate DB2 load file by CDC Utility

A project using the replication function from IMS to DB2 on Linux is in progress, but there is a requirement that it is difficult to deal with some. For example, there is a requirement to add a new segment by the Unload/Load function of IMS utilit...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Function to convert BIT information to another column with CDC

A project using the replication function from IMS to DB2 on Linux is in progress. In customer's IMS application, many BIT items of PL/I are used, and there is a requirement to convert it to a column of bytes on the CDC side. There are many target ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

LSF Job Pack esub output

Currently LSF Job Pack feature does not output messages from esub. We have certain customized output in our esub which we would like to see output when users are submitting using job pack.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Leverage "FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE" functionality to maintain Peer to Peer Version Columns, instead of triggers

Current implementation of Peer to Peer Version Columns (IBMQREPVERTIME and IBMQREPVERNODE) depend on BEFORE INSERT and BEFORE UPDATE triggers to maintain transaction information for conflict_action of V (last transaction wins). The use of these tr...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Connect the Archive data ...

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over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][SocGen] - Cloud - RESTful API for application management, workload monitoring, etc.

Open Restful API for Symphony management. CLI commands aren't efficient when it comes to automatize application creation/delation/modification without having a SSH/PSexec access to the grid which is not safe. More generally, Symphony should be mor...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

No Place holder for evtctime in ESOA Madclient services

Inclusion of EVTCTIME in the ESOA madclinet services will help us in setting the source system provided record modified or last updated time as the actual record updated time in MDM rather than considering the system time when the record gets into...
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Increase OPTIM Compare Re...

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over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Need new NLS ISO 639-2 alpha-2 in DataStage 11.5

SAP Tech Upgrade to release 750 version introduces new characters in T002T ABAP table in SPRSL field for Hindi, Kazakh, Vietnamese value in column SPTXT, which DataStage is not able to translate and extracting junk characters.SAP NOTE: 319916 was ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration