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CDC - automatically add new column to table mapping.

Enhance the product to when a new column is added to the Source Datastore (DB2), and the column exists in the Target (Oracle), CDC adds the column automatically to the table mapping, without stopping the subscription. Similar to QREP ADDCOL For ex...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the send any report output to a separate file.

(This option will become unnecessary if Option to remove or not display “Repl >” tags is implemented.)An option to print the report to external supplied filename, separate from the output. Name could be supplied by a “set variable” or pass as a...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the “monitor replication” as comma separated report

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the “monitor replication” as comma separated reportA option to print reports in comma delimited format. For example: the “monitor replication” prints a formatted report, but would like to receive the report in comma ...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

IBM CDC : CHCCLP: An option to “continue on error”

When running an CHCCLP script to start multiple subscription for a source/target datastore, say 5 subscriptions, if one of the subscriptions is already started the script fails and exit.An "continue on error" option will bypass the error and start...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Make available model IDs available via a drop down in the Lightspeed Admin console instead of requiring copy/paste

1. Copy and Paste is an Extra step (extra friction) in the setup process 2. In the future if there are multiple base models/tuned models to choose from this will significantly improve an organizations ability to move between models.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible 0 Future consideration

Ability to exclude packages from the rebind utility

Currently, rebind statements are generated based on what objects have been runstats'd -when included with a RUNSTATS utility profile- or everything -when only using the REBIND utility in the profile-. However, this also includes packages that are ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

update internal load balancer algorithm to include system resources.

This will help additional failures when dynamic query heap get maxed.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Increase messaging detail after STOP Db2 to provide shutdown status information.

As Db2 continues to allow more and more capacity in a single subsystem - larger bufferpools, more open datasets, etc - the time to shut down Db2 continues to increase. Operational staff has complained repeatedly that they cannot tell whether Db2 i...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Password less authentication or API to update password for CDC engine and Management Console

We need the following enhancements on CDC - (1) CDC engine for IBM iseries needs to support password less authentication like kerberos, or have an API that allows password to be updated. (2) CDC Management console, need to support password less au...
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration