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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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Enhance User ID and Password encryption algorithm

Please advise to enhance encryption algorithm on User ID and Passowrd to AES 128 bit or higher during authentication and store in system.
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

ibm supported schema registry component in the CDC replication solution

When using IBM's CDC to write to Kafka, there is a dependency on utilising the Confluenet Schema registry.To move this to product, regulation requires a support contract, thus requiring license on the Confluent platform.Remove tight coupling to Co...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Add AWS EventBridge target to CDC

Customer wants to replicate data to AWS Event Bridge as a target.
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

dmgetsubscriptionstatus command reports the same status for Failed and Inactive subscriptions

dmgetsubscriptionstatus command gives the same output for Failed and Inactive subscription and that is "Idle". If we are to run an User-Exit Program to automate the start-up for Failed subscriptions, we aren't able to identify the failed ones.
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Event ID 6645 Conundrum

Ideally every CDC Event ID should be unique and have a Unique description or Event Text. What we noticed is that the event ID 6645 could mean any of the following scenarios: 1. Exception occurred during replication. Exception at continue reading I...
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Add the feature to map bigint type to the derived expression (Source: IBMi, Target: CDC Kafka)

We have a column in a table defined as BIGINT. We are adding the replication of it. As part of requirement, the old value of the column is also needed. Would be easier to do via %BEFORE(column_name). But this throws a message "RA MSG 2013 Derived ...
almost 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Trigger an alert mechanism whenever a DML transaction is captured in between 2 DDL transactions on the same table

If we run a DDL-DML-DDL scenario and update the metadata of the table using dmreaddtable command and resume mirroring, the data is getting mapped incorrectly. This has been observed where the datatypes are similar and CDC starts capturing data wit...
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

IBM Data Replication CDC support AWS Glue Schema Registry

Idea: IIDR Kafka target on AWS (AWS MSK) should support AWS Glue Schema Registry. According to current documentation for IIDR version 11.4.0: By default, replicated data in the Kafka message is written in the Confluent Avro binary format. The foll...
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CDC for z/OS should use the same access control module as DB2 for z/OS.

CDC for z/OS can use only Db2 ACM exit named DSNX@XAC, made accessible to CDC via STEPLIB concatenation. However, starting with DB2 for z/OS v10, customers can use a member name other than DSNX@XAC for the access control exit routine (zPARM ACCESS...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release