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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Alert about DATACAPTURE being Disabled

Capture reads and stores all active registrations in memory when the Capture program is started. When DATA CAPTURE CHANGES is removed from any registered table while it is running, Capture will not know about it until it restarts as you had experi...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Include transform feature from Natural to Java

Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Future consideration

Enable WCA4Z to install and operate without GPU requirements for non-LLM use cases and troubleshooting scenarios.

WCA4Z currently has a hard dependency on GPU availability. The Watsonxaiifm component fails to install when GPUs are not present, which subsequently prevents a complete installation of WCABase and WCA4Z. GPU resources represent a substantial infra...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

The way Japanese input is handled in the prompt

I'm using WCA on VSCode 1.96.4 / macOS 15.2. When entering Japanese text in the input prompt, I often need to convert characters to kanji. However, pressing Enter to confirm the conversion also sends the input as a message in WCA Assistant Chat, r...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Future consideration

CDC could check in advance whether the log record provided by IFI 306 can be discarded, as in cases of records originating from utilities such as REBUILD INDEX.

Today we have some REBUILD INDEXES that run on very large NPI indexes, as consequence of LOAD INDEXDEFER NPI. These REBUILD INDEXES last some hours to finish. We noticed IBM CDC for Db2 z/OS follows units of recovery (URs) generated by these REBUI...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

We need the Oracle Instant Client to be supported by CDC Replication Engine.

We are requesting IBM official support for the Oracle Instant Client with CDC Replication. These items have been identified by IBM as potential exposures with the Oracle Instant Client: - No official support for CDC with Oracle Instant Client. Ora...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Allow overriding the encoding for GRAPHIC data types

Currently, it is not allowed to override the encoding for GRAPHIC, VARGRAPHIC, and DBCLOB columns. It is stated in a document "Considerations for replicating MBCS character data" However our customer needs to use customized conversion for GRAPHIC ...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Integration of Okta and CDC

Enables Okta integration for user authentication and login to access server
23 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Db2 z/OS Log cache shouldn't be populated until first subscription is fully refresh'ed

In order to avoid excessive read of the Db2 logs which aren't relevant (and the induced CPU cost thereof) , the CDC log cache component(DLR) should only be activated when the first subscription within a CDC Source Engine on DB2 z/OS has refreshed ...
23 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted