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Replication: Change Data Capture

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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

Requesting change to CHCMDMUT utility used to apply CDC maintenance

Currently the CHCMDMUT utility generates and executes DDL required for maintenance updates. The utility has a CURRENT SQLID parameter which is intended to be set to the Security Identifier that is being used to run the IIDR CDC for z/OS instance. ...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Add ipv6 capability to CDC.

Please add support to the z/OS CDC system started task that runs on the mainframe which is the Db2 replication source. The target is Oracle and we already have the Linux CDC instance working with IPv6 to Oracle. We are requesting the IPv6 protocol...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Send notification emails over secure TLS smtp protocol

In the current context of digitization, where security is extremely important and where all data transmission protocols, such as smtp, are adapting and incorporating secure communication methods, such as SSL and TLS, it seems essential to incorpor...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under 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 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Replication Toolset

Enhancement request for the Infosphere Data Replication Management Console. 1.) Console to capture waits on DML leading to latency 2.) Preserve subscription/table performance monitors via save to quickly setup after a shutdown/startup. 3.) Save hi...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Refresh from maniframe to PostGreSQL extremely slow

Some large DB2 z/OS table are loaded daily. Those tables are needed on PosgreSQL side also. We use IBM Data replication to deliver automatically data to PosrgreSQL. When refresh starts I can see on log message: Target parallel refresh is disabled ...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

To find the latency breakdowns with the end to end with different components of CDC

We are trying to find the replication latency values for a subscription. We are seeing a value in the MC Performance tab for a subscription wherein we notice that it’s only the target latency value. And we would like to find the latency breakdowns...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Alma Linux

Our ask is for IBM support for Alma Linux as the underlying OS for CDC replication.
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Password less authentication or API to update password for CDC engine and Management Console

We need the following enhancements on CDC - (1) CDC engine for IBM iseries needs to support password less authentication like kerberos, or have an API that allows password to be updated. (2) CDC Management console, need to support password less au...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration