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Tolerance for alter table add/drop column for Oracle

We use table -> table replication. If there is a common alter table add column change the replication goes down and we have to update source / target table definition, stopp all subscriptions, have to set a bookmark and after that we are able t...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Make the Journal Control Field &JOBUSER which is available on z/OS CDC available for use with Remote CDC

This Journal Control Field is one we currently use in our Audit subscriptions so that we can easily track down a change that may have occurred outside of a 'normal' production process. We are looking to transition to using Remote CDC as the log sc...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Infosphere CDC for Db2® for z/OS - A new option like "alter_table_data_capture_flag_allow_turn_off"

We have tables in simultaneous replication with different products: CDC and SQL Replica both from IBM.Unfortunately, the CDC Z/OS does not have the ‘alter_table_data_capture_flag_allow_turn_off’ parameter that the ‘remote z/os source’ does and the...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

PULSAR Support AS target database

We have an Event HUB project in progress. The responsible team have choosen to replicate data from IBM DB2 to PULSAR using KAFKA protocol via IIDR Remote capture as architectural design. We implemented this in test environment and we will move to ...
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

allow parameters with clear events command

using CHCCLP, the clear events command - for datastores and subscriptions - is a "clear all" command (besides the ability to select source or target). When running with an automated scripted monitoring process, where up to 10,000 events are fetche...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Global Correlation ID for VSAM/IAM and DB2 updates made by CICS transaction

It would be good if CDC provides global correlation ID to correlate DB2 and VSAM/IAM updates made by CICS transaction in a unit of work. For example: If CICS txn (TXN1) is updating the FILE1 (VSAM/IAM) and TABLE1 in a same unit of work, we are loo...
12 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Submitted

Add BIGINT support for source/target DB2 for i

BIGINT type is supported into DB2 for i for years. Why doesn't support BIGINT by CDC ? Indeed, currently everyone use BIGINT type to create colums key (primary or forreign keys). In fact, We can't use these values into filters or derived columns. ...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Support JMX metric Statistics for Kafka Consumer for IBM TCC Library product

It would be most helpful for Kafka performance tuning if there was a JMX metrics report for the Kafka consumer to analysis JMX stats for latency report. Could we dump the JMX values to a file the user provides as part of the IBM TCC Library API? T...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Requesting change to CHCMDMUT utility used to apply CDC maintenance

Currently the CHCMDMUT utility generates and executes DDL required for maintenance updates. The utility has a CURRENT SQLID parameter which is intended to be set to the Security Identifier that is being used to run the IIDR CDC for z/OS instance. ...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for configuring SMTP notifications using custom ports and encrypted communication in IIDR CDC target agents.

Currently, IIDR CDC only supports SMTP notifications using the default port (25) without encryption, which limits secure and flexible integration with modern mail servers. This enhancement would allow users to specify a custom SMTP port and enable...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration