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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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Export the performance metrics has limitations in selecting metric ID's it allows only 8

monitor subscription performance metricIDs 107,108,109,118,1504,1104,1303,2402,2403,204,205,206,2101,207,208,209,216,2301; You can also export – below is the sample command export subscription performance snapshot name IIGTEST metricIDs 107,108,… ...
16 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Exactly once semantics in Kafka supported by CDC

Our customer (largest CDC customer in Europe) asked for a full support in CDC to the technology "exactly once" semantics when delivering data to Kafka. Will that be supported anytime?
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

return full message in CHCCLP list functions

The "list subscription events" command returns up to 120 bytes for the message detail. if the message is longer, it is truncated with "..". To see the full details, the "show subscription event details" command for the row must be run. for example...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Notification when an archive it unavailable for prolonged time

Recently we had an issue which is detailed in ticket: Case number TS018967989 We want to be notified when a expected archive is unavailable for a prolonged time period that we can set. Also the lag notification should work in this case too. As con...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Source :DB2 for i; Target: Kafka - Do not cast NUMERIC type to CHAR

Why convert NUMERIC to CHAR? When we send data in JSON format, Kafka consumers expect to read a number, but the CDC sends a string when the initial data is a NUMERIC in DB2. For INTEGER and DECIMAL, this works perfectly because we receive a value ...
2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Add BIGINT support for source/target DB2 for i

BIGINT type is supported into DB2 for i for years. Why doesn't support BIGINT by CDC ? Indeed, currently everyone use BIGINT type to create colums key (primary or forreign keys). In fact, We can't use these values into filters or derived columns. ...
2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Add VARCHAR SUPPORT

IBMi (DB2 for i) support varchar for years. Why doesn't add VARCHAR support to CDC for IBMi source/target ? Without varchar support, we have to create a CHAR value for the derived column, and it's never trimmed .
2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Request to develop "Apply for Spanner" with GCP Spanner as CDC target

Our cloud applications use GCP Spanner as DB that support Strong-ACID compliance writes with TrueTime ordering. Hence requesting IBM to develop "Apply for Spanner" which can build on "Apply for BigQuery" already developed by IBM. It will also be g...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Extend 3000 bytes limitation of Key size

TS017762899 | Case Viewer While replicating a table that doesn't have a primary key, we want to be able to select all column as the key, which hits the 3000 hard limit on key length. We got this answer from Support on TS017762899: "A derived colum...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Support for Kafka "Client-Side Field Level Encryption" in Apply for Kafka

Confluent had released Client-Side Field Level Encryption to their on-prem offering as early access similar to the support they had for Confluent Cloud. We like to make use of this feature to secure our sensitive data. Can IBM add this support in ...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted