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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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IIDR CDC for Db2 for zOS Remote Source instance creation issue

During the CDC installation process, where the ./dmconfigurets tool is used, there are some options that can be entered as input, although they are quite limited. The need is to make the tool as flexible as possible and, allowing it to change the ...
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

IIDR CDC Access Server : Improve support of MS Active Directory in LDAP Authentication Only mode

Many companies use MS ActiveDirectory servers to store their user credentials.This is a widely used infrastructure solution. We want to use IIDR CDC Access Server in LDAP Authentication Only mode by connecting it to our Microsoft ActiveDirectory s...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 8 Delivered

IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBM i does not support XML data type

1. Problem description – IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBMi does not support XML data type. When you want to replicate the data of a table using CDC, but the table contains a column of XML data type, CDC indicates that replication is n...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Request to develop "Apply for Spanner" with GCP Spanner as CDC target

Our cloud applications use GCP Spanner as DB that support Strong-ACID compliance writes with TrueTime ordering. Hence requesting IBM to develop "Apply for Spanner" which can build on "Apply for BigQuery" already developed by IBM. It will also be g...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Simple CDC Password Change process for Oracle Target

We are now required per compliance rules to change the password for any application ID every 30 days. We have identified steps to complete this task but they are very cumbersome and time consuming, introducing a great amount of risk and labor to m...
about 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add the Rule based mapping support for DB2 range partitioned tables.

Customers are using CDC 11.4 to replicate tables between DB2 11.5 LUW. When altering column definition on these replication tables, they hope to minimize replication downtime between source and target DB. However, CDC only supports DDL replication...
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Is a defect

Add retry logic for z agent on the source side

Today the IDR agent for DB2 on z only use retry logic for the target side. The request is to add retry logic to the source side. For example, a table is defined as a child in RI relationship. when you load the child table: 1. it goes into CHKP sta...
9 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

IIDR for Microsoft SQL as a source should read transaction logs from third party tools like COMMVAULT.

Customer is using COMMVAULT agent for taking transaction logs backup in Microsoft SQL Server. It is scheduled to take that backup after each 15 minutes. Our tool is not able to read the transaction logs from COMMVAULT. Also there is no feature in ...
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

How can we use Workload Identity Federation(WIF) to access GCP from IBM CDC?

As present we are using Service Account json key to access the GCP from IBM CDC and that json key used to expire every 90 days which has to manually configure everytime in CDC side. Due to this there is going be huge impact to the Production repli...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Delivered

CDC should be able to read Oracle logs with asynchronous read-ahead method

Oracle archive log reading needs improving.This customer has to process around 2.4TB / day of Redo Logs.Due to a number of reasons there are occasional replication stops/restarts. This makes the log readers to go back in time, forcing the read of ...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration