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Replication: Change Data Capture

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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...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 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...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Have CDC automatically ignore views in source database

We are using CDC for DB2 with a rule set to replicate an entire schema from one database to another, both DDL and DML. However we have noted that if the source schema contains views, we need to explicitly exclude them from the rule set: add rule s...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Change to memory management algorithm

We use Change Data Capture in several project in our company.We identified a serious problem regarding memory management algorithm. Once a week we have a batch of jobs performing many modifications to replicated tables. This workload is characteri...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Kafka Refresh with Commit Stream Parameter should check Commit Stream Topic Existence at Beginning

Problem Description: Prerequisite: Kafka Instance Parameter kafka_bookmark_storage_type = COMMITSTREAMTOPIC Kafka topic auto creation is off/deactivated New Subscription with new mappings is created Target Topics are created Issue: Commit Stream T...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Limit number of retries for unavailable target database

Source : DB2 z/OS Target : Oracle Target Oracle database became unavailable due to an out of space condition. CDC for oracle did not detect this as an issue and continued its normal processing even though the Oracle Database was not accessible fro...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Limit number of retries for unavailable target database

Source : IMS Target : Oracle Target Oracle database became unavailable due to an out of space condition. CDC for oracle did not detect this as an issue and continued its normal processing even though the Oracle Database was not accessible from thi...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Support LDAP as a centralized storage for Oracle TNS connection data

Oracle Database support storing the TNS connection information in a centralized manner by utilizing the LDAP services and protocol.Support for reading the connection details from LDAP is a built-in feature of Oracle Client.Centralized management o...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Binaries

To allow us to update automatically and no longer manually, we would strongly like to have these fixPacks/binaries in rpm form (both the agents and the access server).
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Should be possible to configure TCC Logging output

Currently, TCC based applications create a logs folder underneath the TCC Application and always log data there. This isn't create in a container environment. We would like to be able to configure the logging, ideally to be emitted to console so i...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration