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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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Display of replication throughput per subscription

Today Q Apply stores detailed performance statistics on queue level. This idea raises the request to store certain Q Apply throuput statistics (like rows_processed) on subscription level. Background: Today it is very difficult / sometime impossibl...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Allow Db2 columnar table replication to watsonx.data

Truist has obtained 3M+ of Data Replication entitlements in Q1 of 2025 to replicate data from Exadata and Db2 WH to Snowflake. Db2 WH table are all in columnar format and Truist would like for the tables to stay the same way. Our current proposed ...

PDB/CSV support of IFCID 396

Db2 13 for z/OS introduced a new trace record to track long index page splits ( > 1 second). It is expected to be active all the time (part of stats class 3) .Db2 also introduces IX split stats in the RTS tables, and the expectation is that cus...
7 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Integrate Qreplication automation with Pacemaker

Pacemaker if can control stop/start/status q-replication , that will be a great help in making sure q-replication is up and running . Currently we have a solution to do similarly in TSA, but with TSA getting deprecated soon we would like to have t...

Display Inactive DB2 Threads

It's not possible to effectively and efficiently manage a DB2 environment without visibility to inactive threads. My company has become accustomed to viewing those through our mainframe monitoring tools. As a new customer of Omegamon we would like...
7 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Request for supporting MQ automatic client reconnect

As we know, IBM MQ supports multi-instance configuration and automatic client reconnect since version 7.0.1. Recently we found the latest Q-Relication (11.4.0) even not support such a basic function( automatic client reconnect with multi-instance ...

Automate restart of IIDR tasks when RRS terminates

We had issues with RRS recently which were solved via a maintenance cycle. During those issues, our IIDR Capture and Apply tasks failed and required manual restart. We have the option TERM=N enabled yet the Capture/Apply tasks were not restarted w...

Q Replication to Kafka Targets

Kafka evolves as a platform for real time data streaming, analytics, and event processing. For enterprise customers the challenge is to let data originating on IBM z flow to Kafka. Popular options are Kafka APIs, MQ, data replication. Only data re...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 3 Not under consideration

Extend the Value of Omegamon Near-Term History

The Performance Database tables holds history information about Db2 activity, and the sequential output dataset created by NTH can be used as the input to create LOAD files with data to populate most of the tables, but not all. The problem is tha...
over 6 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Feed Q Replication with your own LOAD keywords for automatic load

Recently we had opened a case TS013850174, which could not be addressed correctly b/c it requires an enhancement. Problem was as follows. Due to an error in our change management process, target table had a unique index, which was not present at t...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration