Skip to Main Content
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).


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

Search results: Data Replication: IMS / VSAM

Showing 7

Metrics for this product shoul be provided as regular SMF collection for historical and monitor reasons

While metrics are provided using CDA Tool, it requires the user to activate the data collection and thre is no mechanism for the product to provide a more historial data gathering. Also thre is no way to automatically see trends other than manual ...
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 2 Delivered

Infosphere Data Replication for VSAM CFC1 & CFC3 CICS transactions should end at CICS Shutdown

Shutdown of the CICS 'Apply' CICS region is delayed by the CFC1 and CFC3 transactions. THese transactions should recognise that CICS is shutting down and end cleanly allowing CICS to shut down quicker.
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

NMI enhancement

add Restart Latency value to the NMI data captured in the target server.

Provide attributes in conflict for message CECD1029E

Message CECD1029E only tells you that the attributes for the VSAM data set are different on the source and target servers. It doesn't tell you WHICH attribute it finds to be mis-matched. It would be more helpful in troubleshooting issues to know w...

Add MFA support to Infosphere CDA tool

Please add support for MFA /passphrase to the Infosphere Classic Data Architect V11.3
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

CDA generate DDL to use binary data types

In customer's IMS application, PL / I Bit items are often used. In current CCDC, Bit items can be replicated as forbit data, but DDL sentence generation by CDA is not supported and it is skipped. Therefore, it is necessary to define a column manua...
about 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Delivered

Single Table Definition for Multiple VSAM files in CDA

Single Table Definition for Multiple VSAM files in CDA We partition VSAM files into 10, for better performance, all these 10 files have same structure, just data is partitionedWould need an ability to MAP all these 10 files into a single Table on ...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered