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IDR-Parallele-Table-Refresh

to improve the init phase especially for DataLAKE projects (Kafka agents, HDFS agent), it would be very pertinent to be able to execute table refresh in parallel and not sequentially in the same subscription.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Stronger encryption for usernames and passwords in CDC metadata

Currently the usernames and passwords are not strongly encrypted in the CDC metadata or in the Access Server files. Many customers in secure environments would like stronger encryption to be used.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

IIDR CDC replication of large DB2 z/OS batch

Replication of large DB2 z/OS batch using IIDR CDC failed and IIDR CDC development recommended to open RFE to fix this. Issue is related to how IIDR CDC uses metadata in the IBM z/OS. ==========The RFE should request that below the bar storage con...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Mapping journal control fields to Kafka targets

Mapping journal control fields to Kafka targets No Journal fields are available for Mapping and making a decision based on those valuesalthough Documentation shows the steps on how to map the journey Fields, features not available for the Kafka ta...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

CDC for DB2LUW shall leverage HADR/pureScale features like WLB, ACR

From some of the recent experiences, it occurred to me that for CDC for DB2 LUW there could be better ways of handling HADR node/pureScale member failover. As we rely on CLI (native calls) to read source logs, the connection api (SQLConnect) does ...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Use "LOAD REPLACE SHRLEVEL CHANGE" to refresh DB2 target tables

when a CDC DB2 target is refreshed , the load utility is run "LOADREPLACE REUSE LOG NO NOCOPYPEND".this will cause a complete outage at the target.Can this be changed to ONLINE LOAD REPLACE which does not causes extended outage of the table but a ...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Problem with CHCCLP command modify column encodings

We used CHCCLP command to modify column encodings for a target column in a table mapping. (Example : modify column encoding targetColumn USIUSR type specify value 297;).The source and target is IIDR CDC for IBM i. When we execute the command we ha...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Optim Masking functions within CDC (Replication)

Optim masking can be implemented in different flavours. Optim provides DLLs with callable masking functions that will mask consistently across the enterprise. These functions can be called using a C language API, or using a Java API. Customer woul...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Re-starting IIDR/CDC datastores/instances whether it is source or target via Management Console

Ability to re-start IIDR/CDC instance whether it is source or target via Management Console
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Shorten the time spent by "onstat -z" when zeroing internal structures

As was diagnosed in ticket TS002495910, in customer's system "onstat -z" processing is causing about 1 second "block" every 5 minutes for all threads, that needed to acquire the global mutex. This causes problems in customer's system (one of the l...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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