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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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Allowing SETJRNPOS to run with a parameter for “current” to automatically capture the active journal position on IBM i

CDC on IBM iSeries (Db2 for i) does not provide a built-in feature to automatically update the journal sequence after a failover or planned switch. The manual step (capturing and updating the journal sequence) requires an exact restart point to pr...
5 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
14 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Possibility of installing the Management Console on other operating systems such as Unix/Linux

Since the Management Console of the IBM Data Replication Db2 for z/OS Remote Source runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), the client requests that we support its execution on other operating systems such as Unix/Linux.
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

CDC Latency - Long running UR

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017574974 - Cdc latency wrong value on MC. When there is long running UR in the staging space (meaning the data is way behind), MC shows 0 latency value. Because of the all applications see this 0 ...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Support to Geometry type field to Oracle Database

the advancement of analytical projects involving geographic data and computer vision, the customer need to replicate geometry data from Oracle to later work on their analytical repositories.
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

CHCCLP - ability to view output same as Management Console

Vanguard wants to select specific fields that can be monitored. In Management Console, they can select froem fields that they want to monitor and take snapshots. with CHCCLP, it showed two separate tasks. IBM Support confirmed it cannot be combine...
9 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

CDC Agent support HA/cluster by product itself.

In banking production environment, CDC agent are often across multi platform for different database, and CDC HA solution have to depend on different technology tightly with OS and different OS version, such as AIX, Linux. and the HA stack is often...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

CDC Forced Stop on Log Deletion

I am writing to request an enhancement in the CDC (Change Data Capture) functionality to include a forced stop mechanism when logs required by the XStream API are deleted. Currently, CDC continues to wait for logs from the XStream API, which resul...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Monitoring role for CDC Subscriptions: Check Subscription Status without table level access

This idea is for DB2 for Z/OS as Source in IIDR CDC replication environment At present, the IIDR CDC Management Console and CHCCLP scripts allow status check on CDC subscriptions only if mainframe user used to connect to DB2 on Z/OS datastore has ...
29 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

return full message in CHCCLP list functions

The "list subscription events" command returns up to 120 bytes for the message detail. if the message is longer, it is truncated with "..". To see the full details, the "show subscription event details" command for the row must be run. for example...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration