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IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBM i does not support XML data type

1. Problem description – IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBMi does not support XML data type. When you want to replicate the data of a table using CDC, but the table contains a column of XML data type, CDC indicates that replication is n...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

IIDR CDC Started task filling SYSOUT with no way option to limit it currently. Enhance product to filter and reduce SYSOUT logging levels

An S722 abend can occur when the SYSOUT output exceeds its defined limit. In a z/OS environment, setting DISPLAYLOG=TRUE causes all diagnostic log messages to be written to the SYSOUT DD statement. To avoid generating a high volume of log data, it...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

CDC needs to be able to "Refresh" tables in Parallel

We have extremely large tables which are replicated and targets are in cloud. Normally all the tables are grouped in few subs. During the initial refresh process , the tables are loaded in sequential order one by one and it takes several hours to ...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Dependency Management (for TCC)

In order to provide a better dependency management while implementing applications, I ask you to provide a Maven POM file. Providing dependencies via copy and paste causes, among many other things, a bigger software repository and/or unpredictable...
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Windows Db2-Runtime-Client with Certificate authentication: should also work without specifying sslClientLabel

Windows Db2-Runtime-Client with Certificate authentication: should also work without specifying sslClientLabel Today it is mandatory to define sslClientLabel (aka Friendly Name) if SSLClientKeystoredb value="GSK_MS_CERTIFICATE_STORE" is set. We h...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 5 Planned for future release

Allow persistent subscriptions to reconnect when there has been a recoverable database connection error

We have been receiving SQL connection error messages on our DB2 LUW source instances that include the text: "SQLSTATE 08506: A connection failed but has been re-established.". Support has indicated that this is functioning as designed and persiste...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Make Db2 Connect ready for the future (which is already here)

Hi IBM Community, hi IBM Support, as part of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux version change, at the moment we have to set up many new server systems for the application software we support.Our application software relies heavily on DB2 and so the IBM D...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

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