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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Possibility to load CDC SMF data into Db2 for z/OS tables for reporting

We customized CDC (Apply and Capture Task) to write several statics into SMF. But as of today there is no official support (JCL/ sampling) how to parse and prepare those SMF data to import them into Db2 tables or spreadsheets for further reporting...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

IBM CDC multiple OU recognition in the ldap.properties

We have to give full hierarchy of OU for the user in authUserBaseDN, which means it is restricting to use users from two different OUs.i. Example: current we have used “authUserBaseDN=OU=ConsultantAccounts,OU=Users,OU=Corporate,DC=tiffco,DC=netâ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Application Without ASLR Protection

During an analysis of the application, it was observed that "DmClient.exe" do not have Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) enabled. ASLR is considered a security best practice for memory management and can prevent buffer overflow attacks. La...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

CDC directly support PostgreSQL partition table

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=configure-replicating-data-in-partitioned-tables CDC can not directly support PostgreSQL partition table now,This is very inconvenient,Can we change it to just mapping the parent table?
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

CDC Should have the ability to better manage source table structure changes.

Currently the recommendation is to stop all DML activity to a source table in DB2 LUW before changing the table structure. In a 24X7 environment this is not practical. Since DB2 is able to handle the change in real time then CDC should be able to.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Replication support for IIDR CDC FlexRep for CockroachDB

We are trying replicate data from DB2 to CockroachDB and we are in the initial stages of testing and we came across the Flexrep engine in CDC which can be used to replicate data using a custom JDBC driver(Used PostgreSQL). And we also tried using ...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Lower CPU consumption in CDC for Db2 z/OS (local capture): Modify IIDR CDC for z/OS to reduce its priced general CPU consumption by moving some consistent CPU processing to zIIP

This Request for Enhancement is to modify IIDR CDC for z/OS to reduce its priced general CPU consumption by moving some consistent CPU processing to non-priced zIIP eligible processing. IIDR CDC is a large general CPU consumer in our shop resultin...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

CDC Management console: Prevent starting subscription when sub is locked

It is possible to start a subscription in a lock state. When a CHCCLP script tries to lock the subscription, the script fails ("Subscription Already Locked"). By preventing the start of a locked subscription, will prevent this.
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

CDC - automatically add new column to table mapping.

Enhance the product to when a new column is added to the Source Datastore (DB2), and the column exists in the Target (Oracle), CDC adds the column automatically to the table mapping, without stopping the subscription. Similar to QREP ADDCOL For ex...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the send any report output to a separate file.

(This option will become unnecessary if Option to remove or not display “Repl >” tags is implemented.)An option to print the report to external supplied filename, separate from the output. Name could be supplied by a “set variable” or pass as a...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration