IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Sequence number, row number of the record

    When using MySQL DB as a source and in case of multiple transactions done in the same commit cycle, there is no way to know the sequence of executed transactions. In the journal control fields, there is a commit cycle id (CCID), this is same for m...
    6 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    CDC could check in advance whether the log record provided by IFI 306 can be discarded, as in cases of records originating from utilities such as REBUILD INDEX.

    Today we have some REBUILD INDEXES that run on very large NPI indexes, as consequence of LOAD INDEXDEFER NPI. These REBUILD INDEXES last some hours to finish. We noticed IBM CDC for Db2 z/OS follows units of recovery (URs) generated by these REBUI...
    27 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 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...
    11 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    We need the Oracle Instant Client to be supported by CDC Replication Engine.

    We are requesting IBM official support for the Oracle Instant Client with CDC Replication. These items have been identified by IBM as potential exposures with the Oracle Instant Client: - No official support for CDC with Oracle Instant Client. Ora...
    about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    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...
    24 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

    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...
    12 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    CDC can not support ARM arquitecture from AWS EC2

    IIDR CDC can't be executed on AWS EC2 instances if it's selected an instance with an AWS Graviton processors. This situation limit the family instances elegibles to be selected.
    11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    Export the performance metrics has limitations in selecting metric ID's it allows only 8

    monitor subscription performance metricIDs 107,108,109,118,1504,1104,1303,2402,2403,204,205,206,2101,207,208,209,216,2301; You can also export – below is the sample command export subscription performance snapshot name IIGTEST metricIDs 107,108,… ...
    6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    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...
    10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

    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...
    30 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

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