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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Kerberos support for Oracle connections from Infosphere CDC tool

As part of mandatory application modernization efforts we are upgrading all application connections to Kerberos based connection, The only blocker we have is IBM CDC tool, which currently does not support Kerberos. We are not allowed to upgrade un...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

CDC Kafka KCOP to be able to subscribe any replication event

In current version of KCOP it is limited to subscribing to these replication event types: ReplicationEventTypes.BEFORE_INSERT_EVENT, ReplicationEventTypes.BEFORE_DELETE_EVENT, ReplicationEventTypes.BEFORE_UPDATE_EVENT KCOP should be allowed to sub...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

The ability to grant rights for users on subscriptions not based on read/write rights of the tables in Db2

At the moment the method for securing subscriptions between users is based on the read/write authorisations of the users on the tables that are defined in the subscriptions. So if a user opens the management console the user can only see the subsc...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Trigger an alert mechanism whenever a DML transaction is captured in between 2 DDL transactions on the same table

If we run a DDL-DML-DDL scenario and update the metadata of the table using dmreaddtable command and resume mirroring, the data is getting mapped incorrectly. This has been observed where the datatypes are similar and CDC starts capturing data wit...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Access control to a subscription

There are two teams, that have access to datastores. On a datastore exists subscriptions, that should be accessible to only one team. Users from another team can inadvertently damage the subscription. It is impossible to prevent that. Installing a...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

IBM Data Replication CDC support AWS Glue Schema Registry

Idea: IIDR Kafka target on AWS (AWS MSK) should support AWS Glue Schema Registry. According to current documentation for IIDR version 11.4.0: By default, replicated data in the Kafka message is written in the Confluent Avro binary format. The foll...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Optimize extraction of LOB data

CDC source agent currently extracts LOB values with the following type of queries:* SELECT "C5_CLOB" FROM "REPL"."STAB1" t WHERE ROWID = :v0.This means that for each extracted LOB there needs to be a single execution of a query.Small LOBs, which a...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Enable "overwrite encoding as binary" for CLOB

We have several CLOB columns in DB2 that contain binary data. Due to 0x00 Byte values we can't transfer them into a TEXT column in postgreSQL (0X00 is not accepted in utf-8). The Option "overwrite encoding as binary" on the CLOB Column in "Db2 for...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Merging of tables for physical partitioned databases to a single Kafka topic

We have data in IMS which is divided in multiple partitions and sored in different physical databases. So multiple tables are created like <table_1>,<table_2>,..........,<table_20> for the same dataset using CDA mapping tool. We ...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Enable InfoSphere CDC for Microsoft SQL Server on Linux

We want to run the Microsoft SQL Server agent in a container on the mainframe. Which requires the agent to be ported to Linux. When running the agent on the mainframe it will be much easier to manage high availability of the whole CDC solution.
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration