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Replication: Change Data Capture

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CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the “monitor replication” as comma separated report

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the “monitor replication” as comma separated reportA option to print reports in comma delimited format. For example: the “monitor replication” prints a formatted report, but would like to receive the report in comma ...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

IBM CDC : CHCCLP: An option to “continue on error”

When running an CHCCLP script to start multiple subscription for a source/target datastore, say 5 subscriptions, if one of the subscriptions is already started the script fails and exit.An "continue on error" option will bypass the error and start...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

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

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

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

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

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...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for Management Console

We have run into a situation where we need to have select access on application objects in order to be able to use Management console. However this type of application access is restricted to our 'privileged' IDs, which use 2FA to login. But Manag...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Sub should not go down if new col added at the end is not part of subscription

We have subscription from ORACLE to KAFKA and we are replicating few columns of the table. If new columns are added or dropped or alter at the end of row and those columns were not part of sub, than sub should not be remapped and once datasource/i...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Planned for future release