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Enhance Instance Configuration encryption setup

Delivers IDR with a predefined encryption profile for Non Encrypted. This increases intuitivity on the dmconfigurets interface. Customers get confused when trying to configure their first Instance, calling for support, increasing their time to set...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in Data 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)
about 2 years ago in Data 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...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Add support for newly added operation in Oracle 12.2: DBMS_REDEFINITION.ROLLBACK()

There is a new ROLLBACK procedure for the DBMS_REDEFINITION package that initiates the swapping of the redefined table with the original table, therefore effectively rolling back the redefinition changes and returning the table to its original state.
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

CDC for DB2LUW shall leverage HADR/pureScale features like WLB, ACR

From some of the recent experiences, it occurred to me that for CDC for DB2 LUW there could be better ways of handling HADR node/pureScale member failover. As we rely on CLI (native calls) to read source logs, the connection api (SQLConnect) does ...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Replicate character for bit data data from mainframe as binary to Kafka

The customer has data on the mainframe that is binary and should appear in Kafka without conversion. Other customers will also have binary data that does not need conversions.
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

IIDR scraping from Oracle physical standby in fully decouple mode, no connection to primary DB

IIDR configured against standby DB in Active Data Guard configuration of oracle- no DB connection to Primary DB. IIDR should be able to scrape the logs at Oracle physical standby and all DB connections should be fired against the standby without h...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Adding Clone tables to Refresh Replication Method in CDC for DB2 for z/OS as Native Engine

We understand Clone tables are not supported in CDC for DB2 for z/OS as Native Engine. Our question, it should at least support the mapping of the Clone tables for refresh method as in the case of CDC for DB2 for z/OS as a Remote source. Our earli...
about 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

history bottleneck information restore

The client need record the bottleneck information at intervals out of MC into their monitor system.It's very useful for customer If we can store history information of some critical monitor information.
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration