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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Add custom Kafka property to CDC to produce additional monitoring trails

We discovered that the producer instance for CDC is not being created inside the custom Kcop java class. It seems to be created internally by the application. However, this leaves us unable to add additional behaviors for CDC as a producer to Kafk...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

We need a connector from Db2 zOS to AWS DynamoDB, please, with sugar!

There is no straightforward way to use IIDR to replicate from Db2 zOS to DynamoDB on AWS. I think many customers could benefit from this additional capability.
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Define AVRO namespace by configuration

This enhancement is raised by this support issue https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002WX4YiAAL/define-avro-namespace-configurable?language=en_US In general we like to define the AVRO namespace in the Management Console. The current produ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Export Subscriptions --> when Main Frame credentials are not saved in Data store is causing an authentication failure on export via CHCCLP

When you promote the subscription from one to another environment using the script is very helpful.
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

IIDRCDC PostgreSQL Target : Capability to Generate DDL for Target PostgreSQL Database

One of IIDRCDC supported target is PostgreSQL, which is relatively new target for IIDR. IIDRCDC currently doesn't support creating target tables for PostgreSQL, Target tables must exist before replicating data to PostgreSQL target. This would be u...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Data compress of CDC on network transmission

CDC needs compress function for lowing network traffic, especially on building data replication on long distance.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Support for Advanced JDBC Connection parameters on ASM connections

When configuring IDR CDC Agent for Oracle databases having ASM stored redo and archive logs, and having crypto-checksumming parameters in sqlnet.ora, IDR CDC Agent take advanced JDBC configuration parameters when connecting to the Database but not...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Supporting Oracle XA Transactions without DTP

As per IDR 11.4, Oracle XA transactions are only supported if DTP is activated in the oracle Database.In our Oracle Exadata environment, XA transactions are mandatory, but we cannot allow DTP being activated, because it has important consequences ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

CDC should be able to read Oracle logs with asynchronous read-ahead method

Oracle archive log reading needs improving.This customer has to process around 2.4TB / day of Redo Logs.Due to a number of reasons there are occasional replication stops/restarts. This makes the log readers to go back in time, forcing the read of ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Configure multiple certificates for the Replication Engine

The Replication Engine for Kafka currently uses a single keystore for the certificates used to encrypt both the connection to its source datastore and the connection to the targeted Schema Registry. Although it is possible to configure multiple ce...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration