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Replication: Change Data Capture

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CDC Agent support HA/cluster by product itself.

In banking production environment, CDC agent are often across multi platform for different database, and CDC HA solution have to depend on different technology tightly with OS and different OS version, such as AIX, Linux. and the HA stack is often...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

UI enhancement: adding Restart-options for CDC subscriptions without data

When the subscriptions failed, it always need customer to restart it manually. in banking environment there are too many subscriptions need to monitor and manage, even coding to management is also hard work, and it will impact real-time efficiency...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Auto restart of CDC subscription upon a failure on Kafka target

The CDC kafka connector dies whenever a partition leadership changes for a topic. This is an ongoing function of Kafka and could happen during•Rolling broker restarts (to upgrade or update a config value)•A change of controller•Normal cluste...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Support the option of time-delayed replication for subscription

there maybe meet some errant operation while maintain working. When errant transaction happened on source database, the data will be lost both at source/target database with processing CDC replication . during maintain some bank systems, customer ...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CDC v11.4 source engine to support oracle ASM redundancy with failure group

In China some customer is using Oracle ASM redundancy solution with failure group which support 2 storage systems located at both machine rooms as storage redundancy and Disaster backup under oracle control. If one of machine room happens power do...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

LDAP for MC - Support authentication through sAMAccountName and for MS ActiveDirectory DC as LDAP Server

In our environment we typically login to Active Directory with our sAMAccountName. By default the LDAP.properties file has authUserIDAttribute as CN but the CN does not look like our usual username (or sAMAccountName). As of now sAMAccountName is ...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CDC support remote connect to MySQL slave node replication and creating metadata tables at slave nodes

MySQL has a very high market share in China, and especial to banking with core business system. Many MySQL customers use master-slave architecture, typical configuration as 1master with 3 slaves , and MqSQL as source is one major scenarios with CD...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Support of SAP HANA as data source

Due to the current policy of SAP all customers are forced to migrate their current SAP systems to SAP HANA in the short or long term .If they use their SAP Databases as IBM InfoSphere Data Replication sources, the migrated systems won't be support...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

PostgreSQL as the source does not support BIT (Data type )

We use CDC as the main real-time synchronization tool. However, when a postgresql database is encountered, when there are BIT data type tables in the table, the table cannot be copied using cdc. As a result, many data on the production line cannot...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1

Support Differential Refresh on DB2 for i (iSeries/ IBMi)

Currently there is no support to perform differential refresh when source/target databases are DB2 for i (iSeries / IBM i) This requires target tables to be cleared to perform a refresh in case there were any issues in replication. We have product...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration