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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Make Lost Connection Errors Recoverable

Currently, when CDC replication fails on Target side due to Connection Reset (possibly due to a firewall issue) the error is marked non-recoverable. This causes a replication outage that requires manual restart of the affected subscriptions. To av...
4 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

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...
28 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CDC Capture Agent Data Source Db2 requires a functional RACF Userid and Password

In order to establish connectivity to the CDC Capture Agent data source (Db2) on zOS from the CDC Management Console via the CDC Access Server. This requires credentials which are a functional RACF userid and password. If the RACF password for the...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Compatibility Power rhel 8 / 9 with IIDR

Hello , We need to know quickly if you plan to test and deploy iidr binary for : Power on rhel 8.x, or Power on rhel 9.x We need to have your answer about the feasability asap plz, Best regards,
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Started task should be able dynamically update local time

At the moment the CDC started task only looks at startup what the timezone offset is. But when switching to summertime or wintertime the CDC started task doesn't change his timestamp. Having a subscription which uses the &TIMSTAMP to calculate...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Possibility to execute STARTQ command with "CAPTUREUPTO" option

In high workload environments it would be very useful to let QCapture work on a STARTQ command with predefined end. Currently this can be done by a STARTQ command and after the SendQ is active a subsequent STOPQ with captureupto.But if for some re...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Refresh : subset row

Hi, The idea is to have No limit for SQL length when we need to refresh a subset of rows . The code limitation for SQL length IS 1000 characters. Sometimes SQL code is shorter than this limit, no issue. For other usages we can have over 1000000 ch...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Improve the target mapping columns types for Kafka equivalent from sources db2z and db2i

The setting presently in the IDR replication from DB2z and DB2i to for target Kafka: KC for the supported type : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=console-supported-column-mappings#supportedtablemappings__title__7 Source type column DB2...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

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)
6 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...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

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