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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Would love to see a containerized version of the CDC Kafka agent made available

A container image of the CDC Kafka agent that I could deploy would be so handy.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

CDC replication supports on GT.M Database

A request by our client who is implementing a new core banking (Fidelity) running GT.M database. The client is an existing IBM CDC customer and would like to request this enhancement to support their operation.
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

Adding Clone tables to Refresh Replication Method in CDC for DB2 for z/OS as Native Engine

We understand Clone tables are not supported in CDC for DB2 for z/OS as Native Engine. Our question, it should at least support the mapping of the Clone tables for refresh method as in the case of CDC for DB2 for z/OS as a Remote source. Our earli...
over 2 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

Access control to a subscription

There are two teams, that have access to datastores. On a datastore exists subscriptions, that should be accessible to only one team. Users from another team can inadvertently damage the subscription. It is impossible to prevent that. Installing a...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Merging of tables for physical partitioned databases to a single Kafka topic

We have data in IMS which is divided in multiple partitions and sored in different physical databases. So multiple tables are created like <table_1>,<table_2>,..........,<table_20> for the same dataset using CDA mapping tool. We ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

TCC support for Replicated Topics

Currently, TCC has some issues dealing with replicated topics, as they may change the offsets into the Raw Topics. It would be useful if there was a mechanism inside TCC allowing this to work. Usually these tools provide some kind of offset transl...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Timestamp/Time values in CDC (Source: DB2 / Target Kafka)

In our shop we've got a history-concept for our db2-data, using valid-from and valid-until timestamps. a lot of this timestamps contains time-values 24:00, for ex. '9999-12-31-24.00.00.000000 (or also other timestamp with time 24:00, eg 'jjjj-mm-d...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Select multiple KCOP user exits per subscription. CDC for Kafka

Currently, CDC for Kafka allow only 1 KCOP user exit to be select per 1 subscription. Customer would like to select multiple KCOP on the same subscription such as; Arvo live audit exit with Source and Target topic mapping exit.
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration