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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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    To replicate data from Postgresql Source database to Target DB2 without SUPERUSER privilege at source database.

    Dear All, We are replicating data from Source Postgresql to Target DB2 database, which requires SUPERUSER privilege at source database to CDC user. We are not able to MAP tables in CDC management console without SUPERUSER privilege. This is an enh...
    3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

    Improve Error Handling and User Feedback for Context Window Exceedance and vLLM Failures

    Description Currently, when users attempt to submit requests that exceed the model’s maximum context length or encounter vLLM-related errors, the system behaves in two problematic ways: UI Behavior: The UI accepts input that exceeds the supported ...
    3 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 1 Under review

    Instead of 504 errors, concise errors should be surfaced to the user, instead of having to dig through CP4D/vLLM logs

    Instead of 504 errors, if it's something surfaced from vLLM like: 2025-08-22T00:41:31.362506975Z ERROR 08-22 00:41:31 [serving_chat.py:200] ValueError: This model's maximum context length is 128000 tokens. However, you requested 844373 tokens (840...
    3 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review

    Add Azure Synapse as a target data source

    We currently use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication to replicate data from DB2i over to SQL Server. In addition, we have adopted Azure Synapse as our data warehouse platform going forward but IBM does not currently support Azure Synapse as a target. ...
    3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    Streaming for Audio Functionality

    It would be beneficial to have a streaming option for the new audio functionality in watsonx.ai. This would enable live transcription, which is a common use case.
    3 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review

    Add native "Cloud Events" standard support to IBM Mainframe software products similar to "OpenAPI" support in zOS Connect

    "Cloud Events" is becoming an industry standard for async messaging and event publishing similar to how Swagger/OpenAPI specification became an industry standard for synchronous APIs. This also adopts another standard "Open Telemetry" that enables...
    over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

    IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBM i does not support XML data type

    1. Problem description – IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBMi does not support XML data type. When you want to replicate the data of a table using CDC, but the table contains a column of XML data type, CDC indicates that replication is n...
    about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

    CDC needs to be able to "Refresh" tables in Parallel

    We have extremely large tables which are replicated and targets are in cloud. Normally all the tables are grouped in few subs. During the initial refresh process , the tables are loaded in sequential order one by one and it takes several hours to ...
    over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

    IIDR CDC Started task filling SYSOUT with no way option to limit it currently. Enhance product to filter and reduce SYSOUT logging levels

    An S722 abend can occur when the SYSOUT output exceeds its defined limit. In a z/OS environment, setting DISPLAYLOG=TRUE causes all diagnostic log messages to be written to the SYSOUT DD statement. To avoid generating a high volume of log data, it...
    3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    Dependency Management (for TCC)

    In order to provide a better dependency management while implementing applications, I ask you to provide a Maven POM file. Providing dependencies via copy and paste causes, among many other things, a bigger software repository and/or unpredictable...
    about 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

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