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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Timestamp/Time values in CDC (Source: DB2 / Target Kafka)

In our shop we've got a history-concept for our db2-data, using valid-from and valid-until timestamps. a lot of this timestamps contains time-values 24:00, for ex. '9999-12-31-24.00.00.000000 (or also other timestamp with time 24:00, eg 'jjjj-mm-d...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Select multiple KCOP user exits per subscription. CDC for Kafka

Currently, CDC for Kafka allow only 1 KCOP user exit to be select per 1 subscription. Customer would like to select multiple KCOP on the same subscription such as; Arvo live audit exit with Source and Target topic mapping exit.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Kerberos authentication for IIDR for SQL Server

Sql server for AlwaysOn configurations require a stand alone Distributor sql server instance. Because of this IIDR needs to double hop connections to this sql instance and in our environment Kerberos authentication is required. Since Kerberos auth...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Increase Granularity of Error Messages for CDD Subscription Failures

Increase in granularity of CDD error messages to indicate the reason for connection refusals.
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Make encrypted connection to access server with chcclp without reading tls.properties

We have an environment where encrypted communication is mandatory. When users want to execute chcclp scripts on the access server, they need to read the tls.properties file of the access server to find the location of the trust store. But in...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Functionality already exists

Reading Data Guard shipped logs stored in ASM

IDR can read logs shipped with Data Guard only if they're being shipped to files. In Oracle 12, logs can be shipped to ASM by Data Guard. We need IDR to be able to read those logs.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Enhance User ID and Password encryption algorithm

Please advise to enhance encryption algorithm on User ID and Passowrd to AES 128 bit or higher during authentication and store in system.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Ability for IBM CDC tool to load the data from S3 to snowflake

IBM CDC is able to replicate from DB2 Zos to S3 (which can then be uploaded to snowflake via snowpipe). It can also replicate to snowflake tables but the performance can be very slow. DB2 Zos to S3 performs well but we need the tool to take S3 and...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

ibm supported schema registry component in the CDC replication solution

When using IBM's CDC to write to Kafka, there is a dependency on utilising the Confluenet Schema registry.To move this to product, regulation requires a support contract, thus requiring license on the Confluent platform.Remove tight coupling to Co...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration