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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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CDC reconciliation mechanism to validate and report the count of records read at the source

The CDC Management Console currently provides a live subscription view limited to one hour, which is insufficient. IBM customers have consistently requested extending the MC visibility to at least 48 hours or more. Additionally, the CDC solution s...
6 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Allow overriding the encoding for GRAPHIC data types

Currently, it is not allowed to override the encoding for GRAPHIC, VARGRAPHIC, and DBCLOB columns. It is stated in a document "Considerations for replicating MBCS character data" However our customer needs to use customized conversion for GRAPHIC ...
8 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

can you please add new feature for CDC databricks to support the unity catalog, instead of using default catalog.

As databricks latest version is using unity catalog, therefore the existing CDC databricks version which only supports default catalog can not provides a flexible option to replcate the data which is not resides on default catalog.
9 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Please make IBM CDC 11.4 support SQL Server 2025 as a Data Source Target and Source

Please make IBM CDC 11.4 support SQL Server 2025 as a Data Source Target and Source You support all other versions of SQL Server up to 2022 - SQL 2025 now released as of Dec 2025 - please can you add support for SQL Server 2025 to IBM CDC 11.4 As ...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Dynamic filter

During large data loads into the tables, the option of enabling a filter on tables should be available in CDC. 1) The filter should be applicable dynamically through a configuration setting 2) The filter should be enabled/disabled based on conditi...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

For target on Azure (ADLS) make target path configurable

For ADLS target the current default is objectkey = <subscription name>/<table name>/<file name>. If there are tables with the same name (from different schemas) included into the same subscription, then we get a naming conflict. ...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

DDL Awareness for MySQL

After a DDL change occurs and when data is extracted from MySQL binlogs at a later date, the subscription fails due to a mismatch of the structure in the binlog and the current structure available in the metadata. Due to this, the subscription/rep...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

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 2 months 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.
about 2 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...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted