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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_...
14 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, ...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Is a defect

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 ...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Virtual Machine access without mounting path

The VM is mounted onto CP4D on /mnts In datastage 11.5 we locate dataset on the unix path /local/data In datastage CP4D, we now need to precise /mnts/local/data That is a major break in the migration from 11.5 to CP4D. We would like not to precise...
9 days ago in DataStage 0 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...
29 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Improve modifying email notification settings and applying email certificates

The interface to apply email settings in IBM Software Hub isn't user friendly. We are now required to update our email certificates every 45 days. The current interface has us enter the new email certificate but we are unable to save our changes u...
15 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Datastage ability to mount nfs and run software as a user

Allow better integration to ldap users in Datastage in order to run software and mount nfs share as a user. Today nfs mounts show as user 999 (unknown user) and this is not acceptable from a security point of view. Also the customer uses encryptio...
15 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Integration of Okta and CDC

Enables Okta integration for user authentication and login to access server
16 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Db2 z/OS Log cache shouldn't be populated until first subscription is fully refresh'ed

In order to avoid excessive read of the Db2 logs which aren't relevant (and the induced CPU cost thereof) , the CDC log cache component(DLR) should only be activated when the first subscription within a CDC Source Engine on DB2 z/OS has refreshed ...
17 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

GIT for Datastage NG (based on review with customer)

Together with the customer we validated the initial version of Git for Datastage NG. Customer is using Datastage NG based on CPD 5.2.1 in production since y25. As the idea comprises a lot of aspects including diagrams, we created a document and ad...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review