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Replication: Change Data Capture

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DDL change tolerance in the CDC Replication Engine for Db2® for z/OS® Remote Source

In the CDC Replication Engine for Db2® for z/OS® Remote Source, DDL changes in the replication cannot be compensated by the product while it can be compensated in the native cdc. It is because of table versioning after DDL change (Add column, Drop...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

EndOnError, ONDecompressionError, and onutilityaction parameters in remote source

In the CDC Replication Engine for Db2® for z/OS® Remote Source , some of the native cdc for z/OS parameters cannot be used yet. We know the following parameters are in development. • EndOnError parameter till the end of 2021 Q1 • ONDecompressionEr...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

CHCCLP commands documentation

Please provide the documentation on CHCCLP commands in the Knowledge Center.The built-in help in CHCCLP requires the tool to be installed, in order to check for up-to-date command options and usage instructions.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

IIDR CDC : PostgreSQL source, Provide microseconds precision to DM_TIMESTAMP

IIDRCDC for PostgreSQL Source is relatively new IBM product that replicates data from PostgreSQL database. In this particular scenario, source is PostgreSQL and target is flat file using IIDR CDC Datastage product. IIDRCDC generates source commit ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Alter Table Data Capure None during table mapping

When we try to map 20 tables from Remote Capture agent to kafka side, CDC product run the following commands in order. a. ALTER TABLE "TG"."T_CARD_MASTER" DATA CAPTURE NONE b. ALTER TABLE "TG"."T_CARD_MASTER" DATA CAPTURE CHANGES However, for so...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

CDC: Support oracle virtual columns with rule based mapping

I've gotten error message with the table which include virtual columns in rule based mapping. I know I can use standard mapping and exclude virtual columns. But customer want to use "rule based mapping " to mirror DDLs. My request is to add logic ...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

IBM Data Replication Access Server SSL support

Could you please help enhance the SSL support Acess Server? 'Ron Smith' , is the one who suggest we raise this request, we need to put this into top priority, Could you please look into it asap and keep us update the progress. Thanks a lot.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

IDR: Amazon RedShift support

Customer have a plan that they offload DWH to amazon redshift. So I request amazon redshift support.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Teradata Adaptive Apply - update all columns EXCEPT for replication key columns that are primary key columns

Adaptive Apply following a refresh by default causes the UPDATE statement to include all columns including the primary key columns. On Teradata, this causes degradation in performance as the update becomes an ALL AMP operation as the update statem...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Replication from PostgreSQL DB with dashes in a db name

The problem was classified as design limitation. We can't start replication from PostgreSQL with dashes in DB name. During adding a new subscription, cdc agent is trying to create a replication slot , named SUBSCRIPTION_NAME + DB_NAME + USER_NAME ...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered