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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

Global Control over Automatic Disabling of DATA CAPTURE CHANGES

Current Behavior: When a subscription is deleted or a table is removed from replication, IBM CDC automatically issues an ALTER TABLE to disable the DATA CAPTURE CHANGES flag on the source Db2 tables. This is governed by the system parameter alter_...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Enhancement Proposal: SAML and OpenID Connect Integration for IIDR Access Server

This proposal suggests an enhancement to the IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Access Server to support modern authentication and authorization mechanisms using SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).Currently, authentication mechanisms may rely ...
29 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Faster quarterly upgrade of JVM to remain compliance

Currently incidents are opened when we have issues in our organizations. We would need the product to be at least quartly Q1,2,3,4 aligned with JVM upgrade to avoid vulnerabilities.
9 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

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, ...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Is a defect

Upgrade DB2 z/OS native capture engine from 31‑bit to 64‑bit to lift below‑the‑bar storage limits

Problem statement Log cache is hitting the below‑the‑bar storage ceiling because the current 31‑bit (16 MiB – 2 GiB) address space limits the amount of data that can reside in L1/L2 cache. This runs the risk of a cache spill and degrades CDC laten...
14 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

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 ...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Basic data lineage reports and support with lineage tooling

As a user of CDC, I want to be able to answer basic questions about the data lineage of my subscriptions easily and in an automated way. Today, if an internal customer asks where my data is going this is a manual effort and takes time to solve. Th...
29 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Enable continuous CDC mirroring while a table in a subscription is refreshed via external load

The client runs nightly load‑replace refreshes on a high‑volume table (Ultrawide table, > 200 M rows). During the refresh the CDC engine pauses the entire subscription, causing latency spikes that could breach the client’s internal SLA for all ...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

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...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 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...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review