Skip to Main Content
IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


ADD A NEW IDEA

Replication: IMS / VSAM

Showing 88

Getting the diagnostic metric without CDA

We would like to use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS without CDA in production environment for the following reasons.- We would not like to use Windows hardware and software because they add us additional work to maintain them. - We use Ne...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

InfoSphere Classic CDC for z/OS - START REPL REFRESH command

Need to have a z/OS start subscription command for REFRESH only ( Refresh Method ). The only existing command is : START,REPL,SUBSCR=xx,CONTINUOUS.The wanted command is : START,REPL,SUBSCR=xx,REFRESH.
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

CECBTCCP should allow relative timestamps

CECBTCCP should allow relative times.
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

store/show User ID via CECBTCCP

the QUERY command for PGM=CECBTCCP should also show the user ID.
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

ADABAS phonetic keys

Classic Federation does not support phonetic descriptors for an index. For ADABAS, the phonetic descriptor is a key like any other and an important resource, much used, Classic Federation should support it .
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

IMS Rep: unique error message for errors genning apply PSB

The error message displayed on failure to gen an apply PSB should provide enough information for common failures to easily identify the underlying cause.
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Improve parallel processing performance of Refresh

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Improvement Refresh performance of multi-view definition segment

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Generate DB2 load file by CDC Utility

A project using the replication function from IMS to DB2 on Linux is in progress, but there is a requirement that it is difficult to deal with some. For example, there is a requirement to add a new segment by the Unload/Load function of IMS utilit...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

ICFS SQLCODE-401 for Graphic colomn

Classic Federation Server for z/OS V11.1SELECT ... WHERE COL1='dbcs' got SQLCODE-401.DB2 allows 'dbcs' as well as G'dbcs' for GRAPHIC literal, but CFS does not.
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration