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Replication: Change Data Capture

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RFE: Readable Commit Stream Topic + Commit Cycle ID (CCID)

We would like to use the information in the Commit Stream Topic, which IBM uses in a proprietary format for the TCC component, in a Kafka Streams Application in order to reconstruct a commit from our source database (Db2 for z/OS). Knowing the com...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

dmgetsubscriptionstatus command reports the same status for Failed and Inactive subscriptions

dmgetsubscriptionstatus command gives the same output for Failed and Inactive subscription and that is "Idle". If we are to run an User-Exit Program to automate the start-up for Failed subscriptions, we aren't able to identify the failed ones.
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Event ID 6645 Conundrum

Ideally every CDC Event ID should be unique and have a Unique description or Event Text. What we noticed is that the event ID 6645 could mean any of the following scenarios: 1. Exception occurred during replication. Exception at continue reading I...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Data masking

Hi, We are getting the requirement to mask the data that CDC is publishing into target kafka topics. Currently, we find this feature is not available. It would be great, if you can plan and add this feature to IIDR CDC. Thanks, Kotteeswaran
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

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

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...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 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...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future 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