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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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Provide kafka password encryption in kafkaproducer.properties

Plan text password no longer acceptable in enterprise environment. It is flag to have vulnerability and not compliance with audit requirement.
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Avoid to hard code credentials in tls.properties file to use encryption profile.

As per discussion with IBM support team, we need to hard code keystore and trust store password in tls.properties file to use encryption profile with "REQUIRED" and "ALWAYS" options mentioned in IBM documentation - Adding an encryption profile on ...
2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Add support for heterogenous DDL replication from a DB2 LUW source to a DB2 LUW target

Our customers use CDC 11.4 to replicate tables between DB2 LUW 11.5. When adding new column or altering column in these replication tables, they hope to minimise the replication downtime between the source and target DB. However, the CDC only supp...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

IBM CDC replication - Target scenario - Mongodb Atlas or Mongo DB CE or EE. CDC Engine for this specific target does not proceed with replication if collection is blank or not created. We need replication to work BAU even if target does not have corresponding collections and/or data in the collections.

1. Customer has already requested and asserted it as a missing feature. 2. In the absence of this feature, customer has requested for an utility which will automate the creation of collection and/or dummy row with the matching datatype at par with...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Automated deployment single-hit deployment of CDC Mainframe components

Please provide out of box support for single click deployment preferably through DevOps pipeline API based calls with binaries stored in Jfrog Artifactory of capture Mainframe components with minimal input and meaningful defaults with intelligent ...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Cloud Events Data format support for Mainframe event streaming

Cloud Event ( https://cloudevents.io/ ) is an industry standard format that supports Open Telemetry based distributed tracing by default Please use trace & span along with timestamp linked logs, metrics for proper linkage of errors to particul...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Proper RACF Group based security policies with fine-grain role permissions

In enterprises, different employees perform different roles and they move across teams or have organisation changes. Current IIDR CDC product doesn't support proper RACF based group policies which means when a new user joins or leave a team, vario...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Better SRE actions capability on Mainframe and Distributed OS components

Provide health check and liveness probes observability APIs preferably based on Cloud Events standards along with operational actions command level APIs for SRE automation preferably
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

MFA for Data Replication login

Currently Data Replication supports local and LDAP users but we want to get Multi Factor Authentication for users to be able to login to Data Replication client. We currently use PING Authentication.
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

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 ...
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review