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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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Global Correlation ID for VSAM/IAM and DB2 updates made by CICS transaction

It would be good if CDC provides global correlation ID to correlate DB2 and VSAM/IAM updates made by CICS transaction in a unit of work. For example: If CICS txn (TXN1) is updating the FILE1 (VSAM/IAM) and TABLE1 in a same unit of work, we are loo...
14 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

write the initial prompt as a comment in the playbook when using the playbook generation feature

When someone uses the WCA4A's playbook generation feature (generating a full playbook thanks to a single prompt), it would be useful (some customers hasve asked for this) if the initial prompt used to build the playbook could be written as a comme...

IBM CDC support on AWS RDS for db2

The request is to support the IBM CDC replication engine for AWS RDS for db2 as target database.
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Support for AWS RDS Oracle for the database for OpenPages

My client have a strategic direction to SaaS / Cloud and are looking to move away from hosting Oracle and leveraging Amazons RDS for Oracle. The benefit to client is removing the responsibilities of common database management tasks, such as hardwa...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 1 Submitted

suspend and resume sessions under workload API

Currently we can only do with with either command line tool or admin API. Can we add this to all language specific workload APIs We have receive feedbacks from client this will be a good to have feature directly from the C#, C++ and Java API.
8 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Rest API to Close and Open Hosts

currently we only have get methods for host. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=SSZUMP_7.3.2/api/rest/ego/v1/api_reference/ego.htm can we expose host close ( with or without reclaim) and open under Rest API?
8 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

XTREAM needs DMSHOWLOGDEPENDENCY

Before archiving the logs using the dmshowlogdependency tool to determine is it ok to archive the logs if idr-cdc is completed with the logs are is it still required. We need this urgently for the client NTRS
8 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Increase the Max Index Size Allowed

This would allow the system to continue scaling without having to design a new process utilizing the existing indexes.
8 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

UNLOAD SYSPUNCHONLY or UNLOAD NOSYSREC

We are having many developers that need only the SYSPUNCH produced by UNLOAD but not the SYSREC. Having this option available either via SYSPUNCHONLY or NOSYSREC parameter will allow them to get quickly what they need without unloading of data whi...
8 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Submitted

Increase window size when searching for data asset

When searching for an asset within a catalog, increase the size of the data asset window
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted