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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

Support to Geometry type field to Oracle Database

the advancement of analytical projects involving geographic data and computer vision, the customer need to replicate geometry data from Oracle to later work on their analytical repositories.
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Future consideration

Add network‑level metrics and break latency into source, transport, and target components

Network‑level observability is currently minimal; there is no visibility into gets/puts, zero‑window conditions, retransmissions, or other TCP indicators. End‑to‑end latency is reported as a single number based on transaction commit time, which hi...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Future consideration

Basic data lineage reports and support with lineage tooling

As a user of CDC, I want to be able to answer basic questions about the data lineage of my subscriptions easily and in an automated way. Today, if an internal customer asks where my data is going this is a manual effort and takes time to solve. Th...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Future consideration

Possibility of installing the Management Console on other operating systems such as Unix/Linux

Since the Management Console of the IBM Data Replication Db2 for z/OS Remote Source runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), the client requests that we support its execution on other operating systems such as Unix/Linux.
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Future consideration

Show status "active/pending" in Management Console and not just '"active" when DMFS510P metadata table "UPDSTS=2" in CDC DB2 for i

if the status of a table in the back end system (CDC Db2 for i) is 'active/pending' ( metadata table DMFS510P PF when "UPDSTS=2" - "active/pending") for any reason, that this status is visible in the CDC Management Console.
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Future consideration

Enable continuous, per‑subscription performance statistics and catch‑up estimations

The DB2 z/OS source engine only reports discrete, commit‑based metrics, and many source‑side statistics are available only at the capture level (e.g., log‑cache footprint). As a result, operators have no visibility into subscription‑level read rat...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Future consideration

Provide component‑level bottleneck diagnostics and root‑cause metrics for CDC pipelines

Customers cannot reliably identify the exact part of the pipeline that is limiting performance. Current snapshot views only surface a generic “target database” or “Target Engine” bottleneck, and the “SOURCE communication wait” metric shows that th...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Future consideration

Enable Collect Statistics for Subscriptions by Default

If performance statistics are not enabled for a subscription, there is no way to troubleshoot or debug issues in the future. As a user of CDC, I want to avoid having performance statistics turned on by default would help with troubleshooting. I am...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Future consideration

Unable to add Row Filter for Column named as "DWA_Partition_ID (hidden)"

IBM Ticket Number :TS014807855 Issue : I am trying to add a row filter in current subscription. However, the filter is not working. I tried to add the same filter in SQL where condition and it is working fine. I am able to get the result. When sam...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Future consideration

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