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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

Need to be able to remove orphaned subscription threads

Occasionally, due to unknown causes (possible internal or communication errors) we end up with a subscription in a "zombie" state. We cannot start it (normally system complains it's running), stop it (normally system complains it's not running) or...
5 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Global Control over Automatic Disabling of DATA CAPTURE CHANGES

Current Behavior: When a subscription is deleted or a table is removed from replication, IBM CDC automatically issues an ALTER TABLE to disable the DATA CAPTURE CHANGES flag on the source Db2 tables. This is governed by the system parameter alter_...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Management Console should have a GUI for Linux when using IBM i. Inforsphere has a connection to Linux for the Target but we still need to install the Management console on Windows

No need for Windows which add another layer of complexity when we could go IBM i to Linux Redhat which are both owned by IBM. Therefore when trouble-shooting its less back and forth between Micro-soft and IBM. I realize the MC is not required for ...
10 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Enable configurable prefix/suffix options for bucket folder structures for S3 integration

This enhancement would provide the ability to define custom prefixes and/or suffixes for S3 bucket folders and allow organizations to incorporate identifiers such as environment tags.
27 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 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 ...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

All inactive or idle time out sessions (e.g., web, computer, client application sessions) must automatically time out, terminate, or disconnect after fifteen (15) minutes.” in IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (including the Access Server and Management Console)

When login to IIDR Management console, proposed to have the idle timeout sessions. This is for security governance purpose hence that other user not able to access it while you are in idle mode via laptop.
24 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

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...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 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.
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Performance Improvement in Adaptive Apply replication method

We are using CDC to replicate data from DB2 to Oracle DB.At the moment we are facing performance issues described in case TS021758055. All posible workarounds were applyed in our environment (details in TS021758055) and we would like to enhance ef...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 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...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

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