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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Simplify CDC Owner Password Change for Oracle Target

We are requesting a simplified method of changing the CDC owner password for an Oracle target instance. Rather than having to reconfigure the CDC instance on Linux using the dmconfigurets we would like a command line password change. For example, ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Enhance the dmconfigurets tool to handle tnsnames.ora when it has an IFILE clause without error

Currently when configuring the CDC engine to communicate with Oracle, the dmconfigurets tool, which reads tnsnames.ora to show the user the tnsnames entries available for the connection, fails with a Java NPE error if the tnsnames.ora contains an ...
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Enhanced to support Oracle RAC One Node in CDC v11.4

If you install the CDC agent on NodeA and NodeA fails, you cannot start the CDC instance from NodeB.CDC version: 11.4Oracle version: 12c
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Functionality already exists

Simple CDC Password Change process for Oracle Target

We are now required per compliance rules to change the password for any application ID every 30 days. We have identified steps to complete this task but they are very cumbersome and time consuming, introducing a great amount of risk and labor to m...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

CDC Reduce Authorities required

The IIDR Oracle Xstream agent requires high levels of db authorities like create any table, drop any table - these are not required when the agent is only being used as a source and cause problems with our security guidelines and policiesWe would ...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Support Differential Refresh on DB2 for i (iSeries/ IBMi)

Currently there is no support to perform differential refresh when source/target databases are DB2 for i (iSeries / IBM i) This requires target tables to be cleared to perform a refresh in case there were any issues in replication. We have product...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

ENDUR command for all the subscriptions

Recently, we have been troubled with long running URs. Because of this, all of our subscriptions failed with staging space memory errors. In this case we needed to modify the cdc agent with ENDUR command. However, this command can be entered for a...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Avoid lock table on full refresh process

We have been contracting the IIDR for z/OS a long time but just Q Replication was used until 2 months ago, so when we started to use the CDC for DB2 with target CDC Kafka in development environment we see that a lock table in source table is done ...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1

Improve the target mapping columns types for Kafka equivalent from sources db2z and db2i

The setting presently in the IDR replication from DB2z and DB2i to for target Kafka: KC for the supported type : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=console-supported-column-mappings#supportedtablemappings__title__7 Source type column DB2...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Remove requirement for SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE  for Oracle ID used for CDC replication

Remove the requirement for select catalog role and replace it with the lower level specific authorities required
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration