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Replication: Change Data Capture

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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...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

IIDR Apply Engine for Kafka should pick up and inject client.id via kafkaproducer.properties configuration.

See case number: TS002220107 for details. As detailed in the case client.id is read from kafkaproducer.properties. The property injects into ConsumerConfig for all data channels. The property does not inject into ProducerConfig for data channels....
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 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...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Extend support of IBM i Datatypes

To extend the support for DB2 for IBM i data types, including BINARY (BINCHAR), VARBINARY, XML NCHAR, NVARCHAR, VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 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 ...
almost 3 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...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Regularly synchronization between datastore and the active (started) Management Consoles

During the start of Management Console the available definitions out of the datastore are selected. But if there is another user in an active Management Console that runs with same datastore who adds new or changes existing definitions those will ...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Avoid DSNB260I

many DSNB260I received on DB2, during many many hours, when CDC REFRESH is working. There are apar with parameters for mirroring but not for refresh. (exemple PM57708) - parameters here : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSTRGZ_10.2.1/...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Is a defect

Management Console Performance Metrics Graph Viewing - display metrics for selected point in time in the graph

When viewing the performance metrics graphs, it would be very helpful if when you use the mouse to point to a specific point in time on a line in the graph, that a box display which shows the values for that specific point in time for the metric r...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Collection of Performance Metrics at Started Task/Process startup

Today, in order to collect performance metrics about the execution of the CDC tasks/processes, it is necessary to start the subscription, and after starting the subscription you then need to specify which metrics you want to collect for EACH subsc...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration