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Reorg Tablespace template for version mismtach with CDC

In a test environment, it's quite common to observe a higher volume of modifications, which naturally leads to a larger data version compared to the source environment. Given this context, planning a reorganization to address such discrepancies—es...
5 days ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add support for heterogenous DDL replication from a DB2 LUW source to a DB2 LUW target

Our customers use CDC 11.4 to replicate tables between DB2 LUW 11.5. When adding new column or altering column in these replication tables, they hope to minimise the replication downtime between the source and target DB. However, the CDC only supp...
5 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Data Lineage Trustworthiness -- Disclose the source of lineage in the MANTA Query API

Preamble:Interactive Brokers has an imediate need for this but there may be other customers, in my view in mature or advanced levels of Manta usage, that might benefit from this. Interactive Brokers is currently using Manta to produce data-lineage...
5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Search functionality to search for all Objects containing a specific field name or table name. (Basically return a Report dependency for Users)

Report developers and users can find all Reports with specific field and table names - perhaps to assist making changes or to review for accuracy, etc.

Performance improvement for getPrimaryKeys() query for Snowflake target (Flexrep)

When the IIDR Target instance for Snowflake gets restarted, it runs the below query on Snowflake to get information about the primary keys for the tables. The query is fired for each table in the subscription. (we have 435 tables in the subscripti...
6 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Request Informix slow queries history

When a user executes a query and the execution time is over x seconds, the SQL text is saved to a database table, along with general statistics like number of times it executes, avg duration, rows retrieve, row sent, etc. This is configured at a d...
17 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Let Capture build the transaction message with non-LOB columns first and LOB columns last instead of in strict column sequence order.

Please consider changing Capture to build transaction messages with all non-LOB data first, then add on the LOB data after all other non-LOB data no matter what the sequence numbers. This would prevent the risk of splitting a message on non-LOB da...

Make CDC throw an event and bring down the subscription on IBMi CDC agent to ensure it no longer consumes CPU cycles

We understand that if a table has got a DDL change, all subscriptions in which the table is used, have to be updated. But since human mistakes are possible, this high CPU consumption could be prevented if in the continuous mirroring been started a...
18 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

Clear presentation in section_actuals, which part of the plan is currently running

It should be clear in section_actuals which part of the plan has actually "run" Please mark non-accessed lolepops as "-1" , "NA" in the section_actuals column of the activity table (event monitor for activities). Then this can be distinguished fro...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

Having more parameters in API calls

It would be beneficial to be able to pass more parameters during an API call (server/execute, for example). Currently, we can use an overrides file to modify a DBalias or the path to an XF file, for instance, in the case of a data extraction reque...
7 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted