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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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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...
2 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 ...
4 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Enhancing Performance and Latency metrics with append when you relog to MC

Useful to cross verify the latency and performance , also to keep an historical data for the benchmark , also sending the data to datadog, splunk, appdynamics or grafana these tools are being used by many clients and it will be useful to send our ...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

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.
6 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Is a defect

CDC could check in advance whether the log record provided by IFI 306 can be discarded, as in cases of records originating from utilities such as REBUILD INDEX.

Today we have some REBUILD INDEXES that run on very large NPI indexes, as consequence of LOAD INDEXDEFER NPI. These REBUILD INDEXES last some hours to finish. We noticed IBM CDC for Db2 z/OS follows units of recovery (URs) generated by these REBUI...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

We need the Oracle Instant Client to be supported by CDC Replication Engine.

We are requesting IBM official support for the Oracle Instant Client with CDC Replication. These items have been identified by IBM as potential exposures with the Oracle Instant Client: - No official support for CDC with Oracle Instant Client. Ora...
5 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 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

CDC can not support ARM arquitecture from AWS EC2

IIDR CDC can't be executed on AWS EC2 instances if it's selected an instance with an AWS Graviton processors. This situation limit the family instances elegibles to be selected.
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Web based Dashboard/Adminisrator for InfoSphere CDC

The current CDC Management Console is Windows-only based which compulsorily requires a Windows machine. The availability of a browser based Dasboard/Administration interface will help is easy and better usage of the features. This feature can be i...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration