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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Add custom Kafka property to CDC to produce additional monitoring trails

We discovered that the producer instance for CDC is not being created inside the custom Kcop java class. It seems to be created internally by the application. However, this leaves us unable to add additional behaviors for CDC as a producer to Kafk...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Configure multiple certificates for the Replication Engine

The Replication Engine for Kafka currently uses a single keystore for the certificates used to encrypt both the connection to its source datastore and the connection to the targeted Schema Registry. Although it is possible to configure multiple ce...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Db2 for i - add mapping possibility for xml data

No workaround - CDC for z allowed to do it .... ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=console-supported-data-types )
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Db2 replication to google pub sub

connector From change data capture to pub sub queues native from google cloud
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Support Oracle 21c as source, including support for TDE

We are an OEM partner of IBM, for IIDR. A prospect is interested in the combined solution. They currently run with Oracle 19c, and have plans to upgrade their Oracle to 21c by June 2022. They run with TDE on their Oracle.
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Provide Management Console monitor and operator functions access to all subscriptions

This is related to the CDC Db2 z/OS engine. Allow users of Management Console who are designated with monitor or operator functions to access all subscriptions without requiring select access to the source tables within the subscriptions. The curr...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Support filtering on columns with encoding

Filtering in subscription does not work if target encoding is involved. We need this feature to be able to filtering on the source system to reduce the replicated data volumn. Otherwise many records have to be processed by IIDR to the target syste...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Build a feature in CDC to skip reading any non-DML redo log entries on Oracle.

Hi, We encountered a situation where CDC took 10+ hrs to catch up to the log entries generated by Oracle while it was resolving Global Secondary Index entries after Drop Partition execution on a very large table. Golden Gate replication on the oth...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

IBM InfoSphere DataStage - Setting delimiters and separators

IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IBM InfoSphere DataStage) does not natively allow you to modify: - the text delimiter (natively, it is the quotation mark) - the field separators (natively, it is the comma) - the record separator (natively, it is ...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

IIDR Azure AD

Currently IBM Infosphere Data Replication only supports Windows and SQL authentication on Windows server. We'd like to see if it can support Azure AD.
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration