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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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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.

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Add Subscription Level Replication Statistics to the Product Functionality

In case of high QReplication workload its sometimes necessary to determine the causing table / subscription of this workload fast and efficient for Problem determination . Currently workload Statistics are implemented at an Queue level (in Table I...

Adding support in Q Apply for Db2 data lake target tables and supporting CCD tables in Db2 Data Lake

Data lakes have become an indispensable part of today's database landscape, particularly they avoid vendor lock-in; key concepts here include open data and open table formats. One challenge in managing data lake tables in a Db2 is detecting change...

DVM ACI Request-Level UOW Visibility

DVM ACI EXCI environments lack a built-in way to identify individual request/UOW boundaries for operational monitoring and performance analysis. IBM support confirmed that DVM ACI does not issue CICS SYNCPOINTs and currently recommends application...
8 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Submitted

Implicit and automatic reconnect to databases

Implicit and automatic reconnect to database in case of connectivity Failure(s) , aka cluster switch , database restart etc . Q-Replication scenarios: 1) Q-Replication DB2 z/OS > Db2 LUW2) Q-Replication DB2 z/OS > Oracle Q-REP apply process ...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Submitted

Please correct to execute a complete search if the primary key of IMS-DB is specified in || (concatination).

When executing SQL, a complete search is not performed but a search of all counts is performed if the primary key of IMS-DB is specified in || (concatination). This is poor performance to use DVM.Please correct to execute a complete search even if...
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 7 Future consideration

Identify major LOG captures.

We frequently experience delays in QREP Capture readings on our peak processing days without any apparent monster transactions. Transactions and rows continue to be processed, but at a slower rate than the actual log reads. In these cases, we have...

Transaction support for BMC IAM Files in Data Virtualization Manager

Currently DVM does not support managing transactions against native IAM files unless the IAM files are accessed through the DVM CICS interface. Ability to control commit and rollback frequency with IAM files and DVM without requiring CICS may be i...
25 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Submitted

DVM: Limit number of active user JDBC connections, and queue excessive connections

Problem: We are having an issue when a user is issuing multiple SQL queries in batch at the same time to DVM server, using jdbc connection, which is resulting in storage shortage errors, and failure of the query. Workaround: IBM support has provid...
about 1 month ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

Ability for Q-Replication queues to dynamically increase or decrease the number of agents

This kind of functionality would prevent or limit the amount of user interaction needed to resolve certain conditions. Both the customer would benefit from the product as it would be more reliable and so would IBM as this would make the product mo...

In AVZSIN00 - for the Define Database section the NAME parameter 4 chars is a limit

The name parameter has a limit of 4 chars. It is the connection name that user can see on DVM studio. Our external databases have names with more character and to have to convert them to only 4 could be a limit.For example ORAT1SRV need to be codi...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration