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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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Idea - Initiate a refresh on table without stopping the subscription

To Add an Option / Auto to initiate a Refresh on Table withAdd an option to initiate a refresh on table without stopping the subscription We replicate data from Db2 to Oracle/Kafka and vice versa and we need a zero downtime replication pipe and at...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

InfoSphere Data Replication should continue support on - Ubuntu - one of the most popular linux distro

Currently IBM CDC 11.3 is supported on ubuntu 22.x, 24.x etc. However 11.3 is going to be end of support by sep-2025 while ubuntu is not found in 11.4 supported OS list. It is a big shock to existing to us, especially for customer who needs to upg...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

parallel refresh of tables

the refresh of a suscription is done table by table, it is very slow in case of big suscription. the Idea is to do transfert+load many table in parallel.
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Add the Rule based mapping support for DB2 range partitioned tables.

Customers are using CDC 11.4 to replicate tables between DB2 11.5 LUW. When altering column definition on these replication tables, they hope to minimize replication downtime between source and target DB. However, CDC only supports DDL replication...
12 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Is a defect

Refresh from maniframe to PostGreSQL extremely slow

Some large DB2 z/OS table are loaded daily. Those tables are needed on PosgreSQL side also. We use IBM Data replication to deliver automatically data to PosrgreSQL. When refresh starts I can see on log message: Target parallel refresh is disabled ...
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

ENDUR command for all the subscriptions

Recently, we have been troubled with long running URs. Because of this, all of our subscriptions failed with staging space memory errors. In this case we needed to modify the cdc agent with ENDUR command. However, this command can be entered for a...
about 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

IBM Change Data Capture High-Availability

ABN AMRO, one of the biggest IBM clients in the Netherlands, is facing a problem with CDC Software. The discussion revolves around improving the availability of the CDC agent in a Linux-distributed environment, replicating data from a mainframe to...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists

enhancement for dmdecodebookmark command

It would be very useful if the value of the bookmark is translated into a timestamp for the administration of the product.
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Update IBM i Agent to EA API

I want to check the latency of subscrions on IBM i via chcclp scripts. But this is not supported or the result is empty.
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

add tables to active CDC subscription

problem statement : for every table addition, subscription needs to be brought down, impacting the CDC replication service. workaround : none at the moment Proposed Solution : rather , an ask from IBM - please allow table addition to subscription,...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration