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Run CDC datastage/transaction stage on z/OS, for example in a container (zCX)

It would reduce operational complexity (manage components on multiple platforms by multiple teams), increase the resilience, availability. We also think it will reduce the cost.
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Support RBAC with the LDAP Integration in the access manager

The LDAP integration only supports users for managing the accesses in the access manager of IIDR. It should also support LDAP groups of which the LDAP users are member of to map this with the Roles in the access manager itself. This way, when some...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CHCCLP encrypting password

If i run a CHCCLP script the password of the user is visible in the log, this is not desirable.(the password is in an include file)
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 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 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Planned for future release

Need a way to activate TCP KeepAlive on management console

On an enterprise environment is highly probable that between the Management Console and the Access Server there are firewalls.Many times we get socket errors on the console because presumably the firewall closed the connections due to inactivity. ...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 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...
about 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

CDC Reduce Authorities required

The IIDR Oracle Xstream agent requires high levels of db authorities like create any table, drop any table - these are not required when the agent is only being used as a source and cause problems with our security guidelines and policiesWe would ...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Long Identifiers (128 bytes) in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2)

Long Identifiers in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) Oracle 12.2 increases the maximum size of most identifiers from 30 to 128 bytes. https://oracle-base.com/articles/12c/long-identifiers-12cr2
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Source :DB2 for i; Target: Kafka - Do not cast NUMERIC type to CHAR

Why convert NUMERIC to CHAR? When we send data in JSON format, Kafka consumers expect to read a number, but the CDC sends a string when the initial data is a NUMERIC in DB2. For INTEGER and DECIMAL, this works perfectly because we receive a value ...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Add VARCHAR SUPPORT

IBMi (DB2 for i) support varchar for years. Why doesn't add VARCHAR support to CDC for IBMi source/target ? Without varchar support, we have to create a CHAR value for the derived column, and it's never trimmed .
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted