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Replication: Change Data Capture

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ibm i series: replication partitioned tables

Be able to setup replication with CDC, source an destination for IBM i series for source an targert partitiones tables. Refer to the case TS009759512.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

CDC support for TLS v1.3

CDC for Zos is not supporting TLS V1.3 for AT-TLS. After talking to IBM, CDC Java and Access Server use Java 8, which supports up to TLS 1.2. So, CDC doesn't not currently support TLS 1.3. I was asked to raise an enhancement request for this
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

Provide means to limit number of retries following unable to establish connection

This idea is related to real life scenario we encountered in production - we raised a case but we were advised CDC is working as designed and we should raise an AHA idea. Currently we have a number of subscriptions defined/active across a number o...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

PostgreSQL wal file management

CDC is preventing the PosgreSQL database source to delete its wals files. From what I see, CDC uses logical replication slots but it never seems to update the value of LSN (Log Sequence Number) : it always points to the wal that was current when t...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

CDC must show before image when failing to update a row

Opening this RFE as support refused to accept it as a bug.Currently when CDC can't find a row to apply an UPDATE it states something like:"Failed to update a row in table USER.TABLE. VI_NIF: [364729Y]VI_TSTAMPG: [2018-02-08 21:19:40.293305000000] ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

This is a request for CDC/IIDR to provide an augmented timestamp, using an ordinal/sequence number on top of the Db2 LUW second granularity....to give better ordering for JMS targets.

FedEx initially benefits but later on all companies doing replication from mainframe platform to LUW. CDC/IIDR retrieves timestamps (via @timstamp) from the source DBMS. When the source is Db2/z, for instance , we return their timestamp which is...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Fastload Refresh for Live Audit mapping for Db2Warehouse as target vs Netezza target

Refreshing a table that is mapped as Live Audit does not use Fastload Refresh to a Db2Warehouse target table. This refresh is much faster when refreshing to a Netezza target table Event log shows that JDBC apply mode is used for refresh to Db2Ware...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

support mysql as CDC source

More and more clients are using Mysql database to run business, they need solution of getting out real-time data of Mysql. This requests CDC support Mysql as data source.
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Supporting Oracle parameter exafusion_enabled = 1

IIDR cannot replicate with Oracle 12cR2 Exadata parameter exafusion_enabled = 1. Apparently, IIDR do not know how to process Oracle logs when the parameter is set to 1. However, this parameter is crucial for the best Oracle DB functioning and perf...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

JSON datatype CDC replication support

Current IIDR CDC engine for PostgreSQL source does not support replicating json or jsonb datatype. This data types are getting popular within PostgreSQL and applications and customer began utilizing it for variety of reason. This feature will ...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Delivered