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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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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 ...
9 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 .
9 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Need to be able to rename a CDC subscription

Need to be able to rename a CDC subscription, as this is currently not supported.
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Refresh table process needs ways to identify possible bootlenecks

During normal Mirroring in a subscription we have the ability to put it into monitoring and the console shows the activity and possible bottlenecks. But during refresh it's like a "black box". We have no way within the product to try to identify t...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Management Console compatibility with macOS

I'd be nice to be able to use the IIDR Management console on a macOS, although chcclp is available for linux it will be usefull to be able to open de UI in macOS running java with a jar with the bundled management console or similiar. Any tips w'd...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Extend 3000 bytes limitation of Key size

TS017762899 | Case Viewer While replicating a table that doesn't have a primary key, we want to be able to select all column as the key, which hits the 3000 hard limit on key length. We got this answer from Support on TS017762899: "A derived colum...
9 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CHCCLP to retrieve latency for Db2 iSeries engine

Dear IBM Support , Currently, I use IBM CDC to replicate data from source (Db2 iSeries) to target (Db2 iSeries). Howerver, when I use CHCCLP to retrieve latency, the result does not display the latency. Please help me to an enhancement request (AH...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

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 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Support of MultiByteCode for IBM i Agent

We have to store data from different IBM i Systems from several countries, with diffent local encodings (DE/AT = CCSID 273, NO = CCSID 277, BE = 500, ...) into one target schema. Therefore we descided to use for character fields the data type NCHA...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under 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...
almost 9 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration