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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.
12 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Easy way to update oracle user password after password rotation

Currently updating password and saving the configuration CDC takes a lot of time as there are lot of validation doen backend even though only password is changed.Understand any change in the tool will trigger entire validation and very much depend...
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Future consideration

Management Console to support the ability of %CURTMSTP output being able to be added directly into an oracle timestamp(6) column - current output supports string only

Avoid the use of %STOREDPROC to call external procedure to convert %CURTMSTP into a timestamp compatible value when needing to store the actual target commit time since the call is expensive and does not support fast refresh option. use of %TODATE...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

Temporal Table supported by CDC for IBM i

Temporal table is only supported by CDC for DB2 LUW as source/target and for z/OS as src only. We requiere replicate Temporal Tables by CDC for IBM i to have a DR up to date.
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

Timezone of the Flat File to be in local time zone

Currently, the flat files generated via CDD to Datastage has the timezone with UTC timestamp. This is causing issues when the local timezones are different from UTC. Ideally it should be set to the local timezone of the CDD Target and should be co...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

TLS encryption between Access Server (on Linux/Windows) and CDC Db2 for i

We need TLS encryption between Access Server (on Linux/Windows) and CDC Db2 for i due to company security restrictions otherwise we can't use CDC with Db2 for i.
12 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

PostgreSQL as the source does not support BIT (Data type )

We use CDC as the main real-time synchronization tool. However, when a postgresql database is encountered, when there are BIT data type tables in the table, the table cannot be copied using cdc. As a result, many data on the production line cannot...
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1

Identity Provider Basic Settings

The settings of the identity providers are currently inconsistent. There should be basic settings the same for all identity providers: 1) Disable Checkbox: -> at the moment I have to delete a identity provider to turn it off. Only the openshift...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

CDC for Oracle database: if you are replicating an tables from Oracle where there are encrypted tablespaces, CDC should warn that it cannot be used as source

A customer has pointed out that the Oracle team might encrypt tablespaces, databases or any eligible for encryption object without any prior warning. This customer would benefit of CDC for Oracle database warning that the source tables are encrypt...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration