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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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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...
8 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Make CDC throw an event and bring down the subscription on IBMi CDC agent to ensure it no longer consumes CPU cycles

We understand that if a table has got a DDL change, all subscriptions in which the table is used, have to be updated. But since human mistakes are possible, this high CPU consumption could be prevented if in the continuous mirroring been started a...
5 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 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...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 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, ...
20 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Allowing SETJRNPOS to run with a parameter for “current” to automatically capture the active journal position on IBM i

CDC on IBM iSeries (Db2 for i) does not provide a built-in feature to automatically update the journal sequence after a failover or planned switch. The manual step (capturing and updating the journal sequence) requires an exact restart point to pr...
11 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Infosphere CDC Db2 for i : To validate the product compatibility with password level 4

With IBMi OS V7R5 we have new security enhancement where Passwords are stored using a one-way SHA-2 hash algorithm, which can be enabled with system level password level to 4 . We would to confirm that the product Infosphere CDC Db2 for i compatib...
12 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Infosphere CDC Db2 for i : To validate the product compatibility with password level 4

With IBMi OS V7R5 we have new security enhancement where Passwords are stored using a one-way SHA-2 hash algorithm, which can be enabled with system level password level to 4 . We would to confirm that the product Infosphere CDC Db2 for i compatib...
13 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

Possibility of installing the Management Console on other operating systems such as Unix/Linux

Since the Management Console of the IBM Data Replication Db2 for z/OS Remote Source runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), the client requests that we support its execution on other operating systems such as Unix/Linux.
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Web based Dashboard/Adminisrator for InfoSphere CDC

The current CDC Management Console is Windows-only based which compulsorily requires a Windows machine. The availability of a browser based Dasboard/Administration interface will help is easy and better usage of the features. This feature can be i...
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

CDC can not support ARM arquitecture from AWS EC2

IIDR CDC can't be executed on AWS EC2 instances if it's selected an instance with an AWS Graviton processors. This situation limit the family instances elegibles to be selected.
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted