IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


ADD A NEW IDEA

Replication: Change Data Capture

Showing 350

CDC Should have the ability to better manage source table structure changes.

Currently the recommendation is to stop all DML activity to a source table in DB2 LUW before changing the table structure. In a 24X7 environment this is not practical. Since DB2 is able to handle the change in real time then CDC should be able to.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for Management Console

We have run into a situation where we need to have select access on application objects in order to be able to use Management console. However this type of application access is restricted to our 'privileged' IDs, which use 2FA to login. But Manag...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Sub should not go down if new col added at the end is not part of subscription

We have subscription from ORACLE to KAFKA and we are replicating few columns of the table. If new columns are added or dropped or alter at the end of row and those columns were not part of sub, than sub should not be remapped and once datasource/i...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Planned for future release

Lower CPU consumption in CDC for Db2 z/OS (local capture): Modify IIDR CDC for z/OS to reduce its priced general CPU consumption by moving some consistent CPU processing to zIIP

This Request for Enhancement is to modify IIDR CDC for z/OS to reduce its priced general CPU consumption by moving some consistent CPU processing to non-priced zIIP eligible processing. IIDR CDC is a large general CPU consumer in our shop resultin...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

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...
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CHCCLP encrypting password

If i run a CHCCLP script the password of the user is visible in the log, this is not desirable.(the password is in an include file)
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

Long Identifiers (128 bytes) in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2)

Long Identifiers in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) Oracle 12.2 increases the maximum size of most identifiers from 30 to 128 bytes. https://oracle-base.com/articles/12c/long-identifiers-12cr2
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Support RBAC with the LDAP Integration in the access manager

The LDAP integration only supports users for managing the accesses in the access manager of IIDR. It should also support LDAP groups of which the LDAP users are member of to map this with the Roles in the access manager itself. This way, when some...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

TLS encryption for IBM InfoSphere Data Replication Event Server

We do have a requirement to have TLS encryption to and from Linux replication engines with Access & Event Server versions. We're able to do the encryptions in IIDR Access Server but from Access Server unable to connect IIDR Event server as its...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Need to be able to rename a CDC subscription

Need to be able to rename a CDC subscription, as this is currently not supported.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.