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Replication: Change Data Capture

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IBM CDC - On the “monitor replication” report is a column for “LATENCY” - remove

I have never seen a value printed in that column. Can the column be removed or include data? (I was informed that this might be a defect)
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to remove or not display “Repl >” tags

In the CHCCLP script there is a “set verbose” option to display the result of every command. With no “set verbose” option the output still includes the “Repl >” tagsCreate an option to suppress these “Repl >” tags.For example.Repl > chccl...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Replicate character for bit data data from mainframe as binary to Kafka

The customer has data on the mainframe that is binary and should appear in Kafka without conversion. Other customers will also have binary data that does not need conversions.
almost 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Making subscriptions persistent for iSeries

Connections are being closed between the source and target and ending replication. We have to manually restart InfoSphere
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Db2 for z/OS V13

We use InfoSphere Data Replication to replicate our Db2 for z/OS data to SQL server. This data is then used as source to load our Enterprise Data Warehouse. Since InfoSphere Data Replication does not support Db2 for z/OS V13, we are unable to upgr...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2

Replicate USERID for IIDR CDC PostgreSQL Source

IIDR CDC can replicate data from PostgreSQL. One of limitation of this replication is that IIDR CDC cannot replicate &USERID metadata information due to PostgreSQL limitation on logical decoding. Basically, this USERID information is very usef...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

IIDR support for Microsoft SQLServer RDS on Amazon Web Services

Currently IIDR does not support Microsoft SQL Server on AWS (Amazon Webservices) when choosing for the RDS (managed database). This due to the bulkadmin role that does not exist within RDS.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Unable to Correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscriptions

We have many CDC subscriptions. When a specific subscription is experiencing latency issues, we would like to perform a packet/sniffer trace on the TCP connection but there is no way to correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscription. We ...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Data Guard ASM

Currently IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR)’s Change Data Capture does not support replication with Oracle Data Guard with ASM. As many Oracle ASM customers are using Informatica for replication, and Informatica is changing the architecture f...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

replication tool should be able to track the changes happening on the source during the refresh period and then replicate them on to target accurately or handle the conflicts gracefully rather than terminating the whole replication process.

At Goldman, Infosphere CDC is setup in such a way that it starts every day at 2:30 pm ET, refreshes the target table(s)and keeps them in sync from that point. We started seeing issues recently where Infosphere terminates completely saying that the...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration