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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Enhance CDC z/OS to support Db2 z/OS RBA/LRSN values in full length (New JCF: COMMITSEQ/INTENTSEQ)

We plan to migrate existing SQL Replication CCD tables to CDC Live Audit tables. For that we need to identify the exact values for the source RBA/LRSN log-points to keep the original sequence of DML and to identify the COMMIT scope of the transact...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Tolerance for alter table add/drop column for Oracle

We use table -> table replication. If there is a common alter table add column change the replication goes down and we have to update source / target table definition, stopp all subscriptions, have to set a bookmark and after that we are able t...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Null Handling with CDC live audit setup

Problem Statement: In our current CDC setup tables are mapped with Live audit where supplementary logging is enabled only on primary key columns and for other columns supplementary logging is not enabled. And hence we cannot differentiate between ...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

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

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 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

How can we use Workload Identity Federation(WIF) to access GCP from IBM CDC?

As present we are using Service Account json key to access the GCP from IBM CDC and that json key used to expire every 90 days which has to manually configure everytime in CDC side. Due to this there is going be huge impact to the Production repli...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Planned for future release

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 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

CDC Management Console Monitor Role Should be Able to Signon to Datastores

We would like to give the CDC Management Console and the Monitor role to an application support group. Our CDC does data replication from z/OS Db2 to Oracle. The support group would then be able to monitor, among other tasks, table refreshes and t...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists

IIDR CDC Access Server : Improve support of MS Active Directory in LDAP Authentication Only mode

Many companies use MS ActiveDirectory servers to store their user credentials.This is a widely used infrastructure solution. We want to use IIDR CDC Access Server in LDAP Authentication Only mode by connecting it to our Microsoft ActiveDirectory s...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review