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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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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.
5 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 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...
11 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 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...
18 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 ...
20 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 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.
21 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 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...
about 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted