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Replication: Change Data Capture

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IIDR version 11.4 should to support Oracle RAC flexibility allowing database instances up/down on any nodes for undefined lon

IIDR version 11.4 should to support Oracle RAC flexibility allowing database instances up/down on any nodes for undefined long period time within the cluster. For Oracle RAC databases, as long as one instance is up and running, the database is ava...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

CDC shouldn't require a cleanup of staging store and transaction queues to refresh a table already in scope

On a shared scrape instance, we noticed that if we need to refresh a table (or add one to replication scope), with rule based replication the start of the subscription (for refresh) will fail if there's an open transaction on the table. From the m...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Classic CDC to enable keep alive messages on the CDO connection

If there is no data changes to flow to the target , Classic CDC will leave the CDO connection idle. Something in the network path appears to be ending these connections such that when they are used after a period of inactivity z/OS Communications ...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Support of Differential Refresh on DB2 for IBM i

To support differential refresh on DB2 for IBM i. Truncating tables on IBM i is very difficult given the locking mechanism and locking requirements the TRUNCATE or CLRPFM has on that platform. This makes Differential refresh a great alternative to...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

CDC for Oracle support replicate rowid from source oracle database to target side

CDC for AS400 can replicate RRN from AS400 to target database, OGG can replicate rowid from Oracle to target. CDC for Oracle should support replicating rowid, it is very useful when no primary key in the source table , it can helps data reliable.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

asntdiff Utility for Other-Vendor Databases that Does Not Require Federation

It is important for customers to be able to validate completeness and consistency of the data replicated by InfoSphere Data Replication (IDR) between source and target. The asntdiff utility performs this function. asntdiff only directly access...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Instance Configuration encryption setup

Delivers IDR with a predefined encryption profile for Non Encrypted. This increases intuitivity on the dmconfigurets interface. Customers get confused when trying to configure their first Instance, calling for support, increasing their time to set...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add support for newly added operation in Oracle 12.2: DBMS_REDEFINITION.ROLLBACK()

There is a new ROLLBACK procedure for the DBMS_REDEFINITION package that initiates the swapping of the redefined table with the original table, therefore effectively rolling back the redefinition changes and returning the table to its original state.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

RFE: Readable Commit Stream Topic + Commit Cycle ID (CCID)

We would like to use the information in the Commit Stream Topic, which IBM uses in a proprietary format for the TCC component, in a Kafka Streams Application in order to reconstruct a commit from our source database (Db2 for z/OS). Knowing the com...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Data masking

Hi, We are getting the requirement to mask the data that CDC is publishing into target kafka topics. Currently, we find this feature is not available. It would be great, if you can plan and add this feature to IIDR CDC. Thanks, Kotteeswaran
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration