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Replication: Change Data Capture

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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...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Poor management of CDC parser on Postgresql timestamp format

Cf CASE TS009333426 PostgreSQL supports the full set of SQL date and time types , shown in this table Source : https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/datatype-datetime.html Name Storage Size Description Low Value High Value Resolution timestamp [ ( p ...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Proper Error notifications for CDC capture and apply SQLCODE

We recently had issue where CDC plan on Zos Capture was bound to a wrong collection and resulted in one capture referencing the metadata of another capture. Case TS008690724. when this happened a +100 sqlcode was shown in the capture log but there...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Support Kafka version 2.7 for IIDRCDC Kafka target

IIDRCDC supports Kafka as one of target source. At this time, IIDRCDC currently supports Kafka version 2.4 library to connect to Kafka. This request is to add Kafka version 2.7 and higher level support for IIDRCDC. Reasoning is below. We are looki...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

SQL Instr function like %substring in IIDR MC

We use IIDR CDC for replication. There are source database columns which contains personal customer information as PAN (personal account number) and sensitive and strictly prohibited to replicate it without encoding due to information protection a...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

PostgreSQL instance is only DUAL from build 5607, only-source is needed

Since build 5607 of 27 September the CDC PostgreSQL instance has become DUAL (supports source and target). For security reasons it would be essential for us to have the possibility to make the instance only source as it is possible to do with the ...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Kafka replication: Add a system parameter to set the number of Kafka producer threads

Currently CDC is relying on the number of source tables in the subscription to determine the number of Kafka producer threads. As an alternative, a Kafka data store parameter could be use to set the number of Kafka producer threads the same way it...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

A more efficient way for CDC to process subscriptions which are behind in the Db2 logs

This is related to the CDC Db2 z/OS engine. The situation is multiple subscriptions that are behind, for example due to the subscriptions being stopped for several hours for technical reasons. We recently had 3 subscriptions that went down for mor...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically screen certain UR replication based on criteria

requesting the ability of IIDR CDC for z/OS to dynamically screen certain URs from replication, based on criteria such as job name, security identifier, plan name, or a combination of such. in a specific case, we were rotating partitions on a base...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

Debug program privileges required for CDC software on Windows servers

We are using IBM Infosphere Data Replication (IIDR/CDC) software for real time data ingest of various SQL Server hosts/dbs into DB2 for LUW environment. In our company, Windows 2019 hosts are NIST compliant and they have several policies put in pl...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration