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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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Simple CDC Password Change process for Oracle Target

We are now required per compliance rules to change the password for any application ID every 30 days. We have identified steps to complete this task but they are very cumbersome and time consuming, introducing a great amount of risk and labor to m...
about 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

CDC for Oracle(version 11.4) does not work with longer identifiers than 30 bytes.

Use cases for the system: updates source data.System: continous mirroring Scenario:・prepare oracle12c with definition 30 bytes over identifier.・and implements CDC for oracle.・update some data on source database.・check to flat file. There is nothin...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Planned for future release

Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

Enhanced to support Oracle RAC One Node in CDC v11.4

If you install the CDC agent on NodeA and NodeA fails, you cannot start the CDC instance from NodeB.CDC version: 11.4Oracle version: 12c
almost 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Functionality already exists

Request to add AArch64/ARM64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release.

Request to add ARM/AArch64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release. Required for power-efficiency and cost reduction. Required to provided by EOY 2024 to Q12025. Output from /proc/cpuinfo for processor info: For processor 0 to 128 p...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

We need Data replication: Change Data Capture to intergrate for AWS RDS Oracle database.

Currently, me have to replicate the data from AWS RDS Oracle to a secondary database so that Infosphere can replicate the data. We have to replicate the data twice. We want to be able to connect directly to AWS RDS Oracle database so that we do no...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Remove requirement for SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE  for Oracle ID used for CDC replication

Remove the requirement for select catalog role and replace it with the lower level specific authorities required
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

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

Skip the zombie service instances when terminating ego service after having signaled and waited for a configurable time interval

Our observation, as it takes us forever to complete the termination of an ego service with zombie processes. Symphony termination action stuck with the ego service instance process tree when there is a zombie process exist. The only way of workaro...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

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