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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Add native "Cloud Events" standard support to IBM Mainframe software products similar to "OpenAPI" support in zOS Connect

"Cloud Events" is becoming an industry standard for async messaging and event publishing similar to how Swagger/OpenAPI specification became an industry standard for synchronous APIs. This also adopts another standard "Open Telemetry" that enables...
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Replace DB Link between Downstream and Prod Database for 19-C TDE through IDR CDC

AS a part of 19-C TDE through IDR CDC, it uses DB Link between Primary and Downstream to call the Dictionary Build back to the Primary. IDR currently utilizes the DB link option to make the process of issuing and retrieving the StartSCN from a new...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Configure the "namespace" and "name" attributes generated by the CDC replication engine for Kafka

Description of the issue: We want to generate Java classes from the schema registry subjects associated to target topics in order to deserialize the keys and values of Avro messages written to this topics by the CDC replication engine for Kafka of...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Enhance the dmconfigurets tool to handle tnsnames.ora when it has an IFILE clause without error

Currently when configuring the CDC engine to communicate with Oracle, the dmconfigurets tool, which reads tnsnames.ora to show the user the tnsnames entries available for the connection, fails with a Java NPE error if the tnsnames.ora contains an ...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Add a Feature to Replicate Microseconds Portion of Timestamp

We use IIDR CDC on z/OS for replication using DB2 data on z/OS as the source and a flat file on a non-z/OS platform as the target. We have encountered a situation where the microseconds portion of the timestamp value on a DB2 z/OS table is not ret...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

CDC engine for DB2 LUW : Getting support for range partitioned, MDC, RCT tables out of the grey zone

Since CDC 11.3.3 there is a documentation page in knowledge center which explicitly states that range partitioned, range clustered tables and partitioned table will not be replicated by CDC for DB2 LUW. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Facilitate CDC Management Console metric's seletion

The selection of a set of metrics for one, ans specially, more than one subscription is tedious. We should be able to (all would be perfect, any would be good):- Be able to pre-select more than one subscription and activate the same set of metrics...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Multithreaded Refresh for iSeries

Currently when a refresh occurs in iSeries to DS_FF or any other DB it uses the native method to do the refresh with single threaded - This can be improved by using the JDBC method where they should be able to use multithreaded. In the iSeries Cur...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 6 Not under consideration

Oracle RDS as a source for CDC (to send data to ANY CDC target)

For AWS Oracle RDS, we do not have access for the OS so we dont have access to the redo/archive logs. We need CDC repluication tool be capable to read the Oracle transaction from RDS oracle as a source and replicate, in our case the target will be...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

REPORT,TYPE=STGSP support for cdc remote source

as you know, native cdc gives us an ability to report the staging space details, thus we can easily analyze the commit scope and related unit of works per subscription within a specified period of time unfortunately, we just dont have the same opp...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration