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Replication: Change Data Capture

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SQL Stored Procedure or Demo of Converting IBM BOOKMARK to SQL LSN or SQL LSN to IBM BOOKMARK even JAR Conversion Code

We lost a 15 minute SQL Log Chain Backup See Case TS016972617 - for 3 Databases and there was no way to recover - except to point IBM Bookmark at the start of the next Good SQL Log Backup LSN - but to do that we needed to convert a SQL LSN to IBM ...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Reading xml(amd LOB/CLOB) fields from DB2 transaction logs rather than separate select statements

We noticed on production that if there are xml fields in the table , then CDC don't read from transaction logs , but rather directly sends 'select' queries. Same behavior has been verified by https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-are-lobs-clobs-an...
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

CDC Support for MSSQL SYSTEM_VERSIONED_TEMPORAL_TABLE

CDC MSSQL Agent should support also SYSTEM_VERSIONED_TEMPORAL_TABLE Tables as Source.
10 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Avoid locking table at the start of a refresh

Currently DB2 z/OS Remote agent will try to lock a table, apparently to obtain the head of logs position, just before starting a table refresh. Although the lock is immediately released, in some customer environments it very hard to obtain this lo...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Make able to install CDC on RHEL 9.3

At the moment the product is supported only on RHEL 7 on Power ppc64le, We would like to install the product CDC on RHEL 9.3 on Power for Linux
9 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Potential considerations of ownership and support to Ignore the DB2 re-org(refresh) at table/subscription level

We are facing severe latency issue ( goes up to 3 hours ) in production. Source - mainframe DB2 ( cdc agent installed db2 for zOS) Target : Kafka We have two subscriptions, one is having only cdc/mirroring and other having refresh +mirroring. When...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Refresh : subset row

Hi, The idea is to have No limit for SQL length when we need to refresh a subset of rows . The code limitation for SQL length IS 1000 characters. Sometimes SQL code is shorter than this limit, no issue. For other usages we can have over 1000000 ch...
11 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

CDC Management console: Prevent starting subscription when sub is locked

It is possible to start a subscription in a lock state. When a CHCCLP script tries to lock the subscription, the script fails ("Subscription Already Locked"). By preventing the start of a locked subscription, will prevent this.
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Add %ADD_MONTHS Expression to Support Rolling Date Filtering

We need to be able to replicate only the data created within last 12 months based on the CREATE_TSTMP column. There is a workaround: have a Java exit for this callable via %USERFUNC. However, even that solution is not provided by IBM and has to be...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Make Lost Connection Errors Recoverable

Currently, when CDC replication fails on Target side due to Connection Reset (possibly due to a firewall issue) the error is marked non-recoverable. This causes a replication outage that requires manual restart of the affected subscriptions. To av...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review