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Status Future consideration
Workspace Connectivity
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 14, 2021

Kafka Connector job failed when schema compatibility mode set to FULL

TS006561571

We have IIS 11.7.1.1 with SP1 installed on RedHat 7. Users are using Kafka Connector stage to publish message with Avro schema. The job success when Kafka schema compatibility set to NONE. But the job failed with error "Schema being registered is incompatible with an earlier schema; error code: 409" when schema compatibility mode is set to FULL. Comparing the original schema and the schema registered by DataStage job, seems namespace field is missing from DataStage Kafka Connector output.

IBM DEV team has confirmed that there is no option / way to force Kafka connector to register schema including namespace



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