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    Enhancing Performance and Latency metrics with append when you relog to MC

    Useful to cross verify the latency and performance , also to keep an historical data for the benchmark , also sending the data to datadog, splunk, appdynamics or grafana these tools are being used by many clients and it will be useful to send our ...
    about 21 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    Provide kafka password encryption in kafkaproducer.properties

    Plan text password no longer acceptable in enterprise environment. It is flag to have vulnerability and not compliance with audit requirement.
    3 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

    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, ...
    3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

    Increase the column size limit for Derived columns

    In our Testing we found the size limitation for the Derived column. Issue: Columns exceeding 1024 characters fail when processed in derived expressions. Column Details: FIELD_VALUE VARCHAR(2000) IBM : TS020837588 Error Messages: · `CHC0321W` Warni...
    7 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...
    2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    LOAD should be compatible with a snapshot backup

    LOAD is not compatible when an integrated snapshot backup (or when the backup is issued with the USE SNAPSHOT option) is being performed. During an integrated snapshot backup, in addition to the database being put into set write suspend state, it ...
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Under review

    Support the arrow keys in Db2 CLP on Linux

    The Db2 CLP, since decades, does not handle arrow keys. This makes it hard to quickly go back to previous commands and edit statements. It's a nuisance to most Db2 users. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62298637/using-arrow-keys-within-db2...
    2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 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...
    3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    INPLACE REORG should always be interruptible

    Under certain circumstances it is not possible to stop/pause or force an INPLACE REORG that waits for a lock (TS019866410). Because the INPLACE REORG does not respect lock timeouts, it hangs in "lock wait" until the lock holding session releases t...
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 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...
    about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

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