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Replication: Change Data Capture

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DB2 Replication Engine support API-key authentication without username/password

Problem Statement: With IDR CDC DB2 LUW Replication Engine, unable to create a source DB2 datastore for DB2 LUW running in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D). Since CP4D is IAM-enabled for OIDC SSO integration with enterprise Azure AD, DB2 LUW only support...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Retrieve LOB data from the redo log when it is available there

Currently the CDC Oracle XStream engine always retrieves LOB data by doing a read on the database, even if the LOB data is inline (held in the redo log). This has a massive impact on performance and the CDC footprint
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Key Pair Authentication for Snowflake Target Agent for CDC

As per my organization's security standards, I need to use Key Pair authentication to connect to Snowflake. I need to also fetch the private key and passphrase from secret store. The private key and passphrase will be rotated in the secret store, ...
11 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Provide an Operation Level Timestamp for Each Operation

Current DB2 for Z and DB2 LUW shared only the commit timestamp. Only DB2 Z also has the TS of the actual DDL time To emulate like they did for oracle to have a switch to send the DDL time instead of the UOW TS This is for the client -->FEDEX , ...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

ibm i series: replication partitioned tables

Be able to setup replication with CDC, source an destination for IBM i series for source an targert partitiones tables. Refer to the case TS009759512.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

This is a request for CDC/IIDR to provide an augmented timestamp, using an ordinal/sequence number on top of the Db2 LUW second granularity....to give better ordering for JMS targets.

FedEx initially benefits but later on all companies doing replication from mainframe platform to LUW. CDC/IIDR retrieves timestamps (via @timstamp) from the source DBMS. When the source is Db2/z, for instance , we return their timestamp which is...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Permanent fix for Tcplisten rocketing cpu when tenable scan garbage hits port

Tcplisten job rockets into cpu spike/loop when tenable scan throws garbage at the port Subscriptions stopped during this cannot be restarted unless ending of subsystem or dmtcp This is an exposure as any bad actor could act upon that port not just...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

Replication from PostgreSQL DB with dashes in a db name

The problem was classified as design limitation. We can't start replication from PostgreSQL with dashes in DB name. During adding a new subscription, cdc agent is trying to create a replication slot , named SUBSCRIPTION_NAME + DB_NAME + USER_NAME ...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

PostgreSQL current versions 14.x support

Due to the increased use of PostgreSQL and to avoid the delay encountered with version 12.x and 13.x, I ask you if it is possible to adding support for the latest release 14 already released 3 months ago, on the roadmap.
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Support for key updates for Fast apply method ParallelizeSingleTableByHash

We are using ParallelizeSingleTableByHash for oracle target. This has resulted in extremely fast processing by the apply. However for certain tables when they have key updates, the delete and insert can result in different hash key and hence they ...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered