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Replication: Change Data Capture

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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

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...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

CDC support for MSSQL/Linux as source

CDC already supported MSSQL/Win as source. More customers are deploying MSSQL/Linux, we would like CDC to certify MSSQL/Linux also. Look forward to your reply
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 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...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

Build in Support for Teradata Temporal Tables

The current CDC product for a DB2 Linux implementation supports the use of DB2 Temporal Tables. We can replicate data from VSAM, DB2 zOS, and IMS to DB2 Linux Temporal Tables without any extra effort. Under a similar use case, we have instances wh...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

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 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 ...
about 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