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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_...
24 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Integration of Okta and CDC

Enables Okta integration for user authentication and login to access server
26 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

Db2 z/OS Log cache shouldn't be populated until first subscription is fully refresh'ed

In order to avoid excessive read of the Db2 logs which aren't relevant (and the induced CPU cost thereof) , the CDC log cache component(DLR) should only be activated when the first subscription within a CDC Source Engine on DB2 z/OS has refreshed ...
26 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Add Support of CDDS to Log Reader Stored Procedure

Expectedly, supporting CDDS requires an isolated small code change that would substantially improve stability and performance of dealing with IFI 306.
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Alert about DATACAPTURE being Disabled

Capture reads and stores all active registrations in memory when the Capture program is started. When DATA CAPTURE CHANGES is removed from any registered table while it is running, Capture will not know about it until it restarts as you had experi...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

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 ...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

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

Report from z/OS tables that are currently being refreshed

One of customers asked for being able to see what tables are being refreshed at any moment, and wanted to be able to do it from mainframe side, with some report or command. I have been reading the manual, and found no way to do it, so opened a cas...
2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 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 ...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Planned for future release