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Replication: Change Data Capture

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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...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Replicate Timezone portion for timestamp with time zone data type

IIDRCDC for PostgreSQL Source is relatively new IBM product that replicates data from PostgreSQL database. In this particular scenario, source is PostgreSQL and target is flat file using IIDRCDC Datastage product. Per IIDRCDC datatype support docu...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

CDC Accounts audit

CDC User accounts accessed been collected in Audit trail logs at the moment. But it does not mention which machine is accessing the accounts. This is not helpful to find the users who are unauthorised. We need machine details also to be recorded i...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CDC support for SQL Server 2017 AlwaysOn clusterless availability groups

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data between SQL Server databases. However, we would like to improve read scale for our applications using SQL Server AlwaysOn clusterless availability groups. However, CDC does not support databases ...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Azure SQLMI Target - Support for "redirect" connection type

IBM CDC replication for Azure SQLMI target currently does not support "redirect" connection type. According to Microsoft documentation, redirect connection type is recommended for Azure SQLMI database connection in order to maintain low latency an...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Is a defect

Allow ability to remove "Capture point for mirroring"

In our environment we have separate subscriptions for "Refresh" vs "Continuous Mirroring". It can be months between refreshes. We do not want to delete the refresh subscriptions as that increases possibility of losing configurations. We also have ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Export and Import Expressions To Management Console

Currently in Management Console if you want to use Expressions created by a co-worker the only way to utilized the Expression is to get the text from your co-worker and key it in. This is also the case when you first start using Management Console...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Oracle account can be dynamic for creating CDC instance and CDC datastore

Problem statement/pain points： Now it needs a persistent static password for the oracle account when create CDC instance and CDC datestore and the password can change, otherwise the CDC instance and CDC datastore will not work if the password cha...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Not under consideration

IIDR Mapping Tables to Teradata target when columns are greater than 30 characters

The error message 'Message3037' Exception Text 'null'. is received when attempting to add a table to a subscription when the target table has a column name with the length greater than 30 characters.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Use etc/UTC as the default timezone

Currently CDC uses Atlantic/Reykjavik as the default time zone - because "it is equivalent to UTC all year round." Better would be to use etc/UTC because it is UTC. https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/etcetera At some time the Icelandic folks mi...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

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