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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Trigger an alert mechanism whenever a DML transaction is captured in between 2 DDL transactions on the same table

If we run a DDL-DML-DDL scenario and update the metadata of the table using dmreaddtable command and resume mirroring, the data is getting mapped incorrectly. This has been observed where the datatypes are similar and CDC starts capturing data wit...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

IBM Data Replication CDC support AWS Glue Schema Registry

Idea: IIDR Kafka target on AWS (AWS MSK) should support AWS Glue Schema Registry. According to current documentation for IIDR version 11.4.0: By default, replicated data in the Kafka message is written in the Confluent Avro binary format. The foll...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Enable "overwrite encoding as binary" for CLOB

We have several CLOB columns in DB2 that contain binary data. Due to 0x00 Byte values we can't transfer them into a TEXT column in postgreSQL (0X00 is not accepted in utf-8). The Option "overwrite encoding as binary" on the CLOB Column in "Db2 for...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Enable InfoSphere CDC for Microsoft SQL Server on Linux

We want to run the Microsoft SQL Server agent in a container on the mainframe. Which requires the agent to be ported to Linux. When running the agent on the mainframe it will be much easier to manage high availability of the whole CDC solution.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Increase dasd volume limit beyond 1 disk

With our current storage configuration, CDC is giving a IEC032I E37-08 on our sysut1. It's our understanding that CDC does not currently allow multivolume datasets. We're requesting that 'feature' be added.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Ability for IBM CDC tool to load the data from S3 to snowflake

IBM CDC is able to replicate from DB2 Zos to S3 (which can then be uploaded to snowflake via snowpipe). It can also replicate to snowflake tables but the performance can be very slow. DB2 Zos to S3 performs well but we need the tool to take S3 and...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Poor management of CDC parser on Postgresql timestamp format

Cf CASE TS009333426 PostgreSQL supports the full set of SQL date and time types , shown in this table Source : https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/datatype-datetime.html Name Storage Size Description Low Value High Value Resolution timestamp [ ( p ...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

PostgreSQL instance is only DUAL from build 5607, only-source is needed

Since build 5607 of 27 September the CDC PostgreSQL instance has become DUAL (supports source and target). For security reasons it would be essential for us to have the possibility to make the instance only source as it is possible to do with the ...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Kafka replication: Add a system parameter to set the number of Kafka producer threads

Currently CDC is relying on the number of source tables in the subscription to determine the number of Kafka producer threads. As an alternative, a Kafka data store parameter could be use to set the number of Kafka producer threads the same way it...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CDC Accounts audit

CDC User accounts accessed been collected in Audit trail logs at the moment. But it does not mention which machine is accessing the accounts. This is not helpful to find the users who are unauthorised. We need machine details also to be recorded i...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration