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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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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

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.
12 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

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

CDC Latency - Long running UR

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017574974 - Cdc latency wrong value on MC. When there is long running UR in the staging space (meaning the data is way behind), MC shows 0 latency value. Because of the all applications see this 0 ...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

CDC Forced Stop on Log Deletion

I am writing to request an enhancement in the CDC (Change Data Capture) functionality to include a forced stop mechanism when logs required by the XStream API are deleted. Currently, CDC continues to wait for logs from the XStream API, which resul...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

IBM CDC replication - Target scenario - Mongodb Atlas or Mongo DB CE or EE. CDC Engine for this specific target does not proceed with replication if collection is blank or not created. We need replication to work BAU even if target does not have corresponding collections and/or data in the collections.

1. Customer has already requested and asserted it as a missing feature. 2. In the absence of this feature, customer has requested for an utility which will automate the creation of collection and/or dummy row with the matching datatype at par with...
2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Avoid to hard code credentials in tls.properties file to use encryption profile.

As per discussion with IBM support team, we need to hard code keystore and trust store password in tls.properties file to use encryption profile with "REQUIRED" and "ALWAYS" options mentioned in IBM documentation - Adding an encryption profile on ...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Detect connection status to data source

On several occasions the following scenario has occurred:Lost connection at the origin, however, the subscription remains in the "Mirroring continuous" state, but it is not actually replicating anything, since when validating at the database level...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

MFA for Data Replication login

Currently Data Replication supports local and LDAP users but we want to get Multi Factor Authentication for users to be able to login to Data Replication client. We currently use PING Authentication.
9 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Allow persistent subscriptions to reconnect when there has been a recoverable database connection error

We have been receiving SQL connection error messages on our DB2 LUW source instances that include the text: "SQLSTATE 08506: A connection failed but has been re-established.". Support has indicated that this is functioning as designed and persiste...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review