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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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Gracefully handle table failures & send email alert

When a table fails due to structure or availability changes, the replication set should instead set the failed table to inactive instead of crashing capture. It should also send an email notification to alert of the issue.

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about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

QREP DDL replication, add UNICODE factor for column length

When replicating from non-unicode to unicode, the legth of char/varchar target columns needs to be extended. Example: create all CHAR/VARCHAR columns at the target with source_length*2 and implemented an additional life belt with OKSQLSTATES = 220...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Single Consistent Tool for Defining and Administering QRep Subscriptions

Consistent and comprehensive client tools are required for defining, administering and operating queue replication. Today the Replication Center and Replication Dashboard exist, and there are some functions that neither of these support and have t...
almost 9 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Removed forced Requirement to force Replication Center to only run wit IBM JDK/JRE

Citigroup has a rule that only JDK/JRE that are supported by Citi are allowed to be used on all products that are packaged for general users. Currently the internal packaging team at Citi striped the IBM JDK/JRE from a Data Server Client 11.1.2. A...
about 5 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Not under consideration

How to deal host admin inactivity

The container SSH access to be LOCKED for system admins who are not logged into the host for 30 days The container SSH access to be REMOVED for system admins who are not logged into the host for 90 days The control plane SSH access to be LOCKED fo...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 2 Future consideration

retain /etc/sudoers after upgrade

We are doing authorization through /etc/sudoers for admins to be able to login to the nz user or root. For example like below. ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere root ALL=(ALL) ALL username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/su - nz, /bin/su - root...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

backup resolv.conf prior to upgrade

We have a search path listed in the resolv.conf file. It is helpful to locate any server without using fully qualified domain name. The current upgrade is rewriting the /etc/resolv.conf file and user's home directories every time. Due to which all...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 2 Not under consideration

SQLREP Capture and Apply

#1. SQLREP Capture Program problem There is no way to replay a single registration from DB2 log. Currently it is all or nothing when it comes to starting Capture from a synch point. This is a problem because customers want to have the ability for ...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to add bidirectional Q subscription in one Db2 Server

We have the need to replicate data between two applications which are hosted in the same Db2. The challange was to exchange the data asynchron. The applications do not want to be disturbed if there is a downtime or problem at the other application...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Not under consideration