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Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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Add BIGINT support for source/target DB2 for i

BIGINT type is supported into DB2 for i for years. Why doesn't support BIGINT by CDC ? Indeed, currently everyone use BIGINT type to create colums key (primary or forreign keys). In fact, We can't use these values into filters or derived columns. ...
13 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

CHCCLP - ability to view output same as Management Console

Vanguard wants to select specific fields that can be monitored. In Management Console, they can select froem fields that they want to monitor and take snapshots. with CHCCLP, it showed two separate tasks. IBM Support confirmed it cannot be combine...
2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

CDC Latency - Long running UR

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017574974 - Cdc latency wrong value on MC. When there is long running UR in the staging space (meaning the data is way behind), MC shows 0 latency value. Because of the all applications see this 0 ...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Easy way to update oracle user password after password rotation

Currently updating password and saving the configuration CDC takes a lot of time as there are lot of validation doen backend even though only password is changed.Understand any change in the tool will trigger entire validation and very much depend...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Support to Geometry type field to Oracle Database

the advancement of analytical projects involving geographic data and computer vision, the customer need to replicate geometry data from Oracle to later work on their analytical repositories.
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Request to develop "Apply for Spanner" with GCP Spanner as CDC target

Our cloud applications use GCP Spanner as DB that support Strong-ACID compliance writes with TrueTime ordering. Hence requesting IBM to develop "Apply for Spanner" which can build on "Apply for BigQuery" already developed by IBM. It will also be g...
24 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Source :DB2 for i; Target: Kafka - Do not cast NUMERIC type to CHAR

Why convert NUMERIC to CHAR? When we send data in JSON format, Kafka consumers expect to read a number, but the CDC sends a string when the initial data is a NUMERIC in DB2. For INTEGER and DECIMAL, this works perfectly because we receive a value ...
13 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Add VARCHAR SUPPORT

IBMi (DB2 for i) support varchar for years. Why doesn't add VARCHAR support to CDC for IBMi source/target ? Without varchar support, we have to create a CHAR value for the derived column, and it's never trimmed .
13 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Pushing CDC Logs to Monitoring Tools such as Observe/Splunk automatically

In current modern world, It would be good if CDC product is capable to push the logs (Capture, Apply, Trace) automatically to Monitoring Tools such as Observe/Splunk which will help to setup alerts, dashboards, etc., to closely monitor the CDC per...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Future consideration

Show status "active/pending" in Management Console and not just '"active" when DMFS510P metadata table "UPDSTS=2" in CDC DB2 for i

if the status of a table in the back end system (CDC Db2 for i) is 'active/pending' ( metadata table DMFS510P PF when "UPDSTS=2" - "active/pending") for any reason, that this status is visible in the CDC Management Console.
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration