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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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Enable support for configuring SMTP notifications using custom ports and encrypted communication in IIDR CDC target agents.

Currently, IIDR CDC only supports SMTP notifications using the default port (25) without encryption, which limits secure and flexible integration with modern mail servers. This enhancement would allow users to specify a custom SMTP port and enable...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

transaction log backup compress and encrypt on SQL Server

currently we are experiencing replication issues such as the one in PMR no TS009339747 with the error the transaction log backup is compressed or encrypted. IBM Infosphere Data Replication does not support compressed or encrypt. currently, why log...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Provision of remote repositories for consumption of external APIs/dependencies (.jars)

We are using the management-console-api (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=replication-management-console-api) to automate some processes that are currently running manually. We work with CI/CD mats that resolve dependencies through art...
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Support for Oracle datatype sdo_geometry in CDC

We are a railway infrastructur provider and building our realtime digital twin. For this we need very often geological position information for trains or railway infrastructure. We use IBM CDC to integrate many of our Oracle systems realtime and w...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Observability Improvements inline with cloud principles and SRE capabilities.

Current IIDR (CDC) needs CHCCLP to be run periodically to pull the monitoring metrics and use IIDR (CDC) Management Console for monitoring visualisation which is 80's or 90's era thinking. At enterprises, we use different observability tools and w...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Future consideration

Idea - Initiate a refresh on table without stopping the subscription

To Add an Option / Auto to initiate a Refresh on Table withAdd an option to initiate a refresh on table without stopping the subscription We replicate data from Db2 to Oracle/Kafka and vice versa and we need a zero downtime replication pipe and at...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

parallel refresh of tables

the refresh of a suscription is done table by table, it is very slow in case of big suscription. the Idea is to do transfert+load many table in parallel.
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

enhancement for dmdecodebookmark command

It would be very useful if the value of the bookmark is translated into a timestamp for the administration of the product.
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

add tables to active CDC subscription

problem statement : for every table addition, subscription needs to be brought down, impacting the CDC replication service. workaround : none at the moment Proposed Solution : rather , an ask from IBM - please allow table addition to subscription,...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration