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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Ability for IBM CDC tool to load the data from S3 to snowflake

IBM CDC is able to replicate from DB2 Zos to S3 (which can then be uploaded to snowflake via snowpipe). It can also replicate to snowflake tables but the performance can be very slow. DB2 Zos to S3 performs well but we need the tool to take S3 and...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Poor management of CDC parser on Postgresql timestamp format

Cf CASE TS009333426 PostgreSQL supports the full set of SQL date and time types , shown in this table Source : https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/datatype-datetime.html Name Storage Size Description Low Value High Value Resolution timestamp [ ( p ...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

PostgreSQL instance is only DUAL from build 5607, only-source is needed

Since build 5607 of 27 September the CDC PostgreSQL instance has become DUAL (supports source and target). For security reasons it would be essential for us to have the possibility to make the instance only source as it is possible to do with the ...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Kafka replication: Add a system parameter to set the number of Kafka producer threads

Currently CDC is relying on the number of source tables in the subscription to determine the number of Kafka producer threads. As an alternative, a Kafka data store parameter could be use to set the number of Kafka producer threads the same way it...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CDC Accounts audit

CDC User accounts accessed been collected in Audit trail logs at the moment. But it does not mention which machine is accessing the accounts. This is not helpful to find the users who are unauthorised. We need machine details also to be recorded i...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Multiuser Configuration for Db2 for i

If you have, or you plan to add, a datastore that is accessed by more than one user, you can enable automatic multiuser configuration when adding datastores, and you can prompt users to log comments when unlocking subscriptions when the source is ...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Converting encrypted/hash db2 for IBM i. Columns to Postgresql char column.

We are trying replicating from db2 for I table that has a column containing HASH or encrypted values. I have been researching this for some time and I can find any solution for that.
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CDC for DB2 LUW - Refresh "RS" record is out of order - add DB2 Parameter CPU_PARALLELISM in CDC

When performing a Refresh to a DB2 LUW Target, then there is a record with Entry Type "RS" written to the target table, before the data records follow up with Entry Types "RR" only. The background of the first artificial "RS record" is to be able ...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration