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Search results: Data Replication: Change Data Capture

Faster quarterly upgrade of JVM to remain compliance

Currently incidents are opened when we have issues in our organizations. We would need the product to be at least quartly Q1,2,3,4 aligned with JVM upgrade to avoid vulnerabilities.
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

Upgrade DB2 z/OS native capture engine from 31‑bit to 64‑bit to lift below‑the‑bar storage limits

Problem statement Log cache is hitting the below‑the‑bar storage ceiling because the current 31‑bit (16 MiB – 2 GiB) address space limits the amount of data that can reside in L1/L2 cache. This runs the risk of a cache spill and degrades CDC laten...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

Enable continuous CDC mirroring while a table in a subscription is refreshed via external load

The client runs nightly load‑replace refreshes on a high‑volume table (Ultrawide table, > 200 M rows). During the refresh the CDC engine pauses the entire subscription, causing latency spikes that could breach the client’s internal SLA for all ...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

Integration of Okta and CDC

Enables Okta integration for user authentication and login to access server
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

Allow overriding the encoding for GRAPHIC data types

Currently, it is not allowed to override the encoding for GRAPHIC, VARGRAPHIC, and DBCLOB columns. It is stated in a document "Considerations for replicating MBCS character data" However our customer needs to use customized conversion for GRAPHIC ...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

Avoid to hard code credentials in tls.properties file to use encryption profile.

As per discussion with IBM support team, we need to hard code keystore and trust store password in tls.properties file to use encryption profile with "REQUIRED" and "ALWAYS" options mentioned in IBM documentation - Adding an encryption profile on ...
9 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

Add support for heterogenous DDL replication from a DB2 LUW source to a DB2 LUW target

Our customers use CDC 11.4 to replicate tables between DB2 LUW 11.5. When adding new column or altering column in these replication tables, they hope to minimise the replication downtime between the source and target DB. However, the CDC only supp...
9 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

We need the Oracle Instant Client to be supported by CDC Replication Engine.

We are requesting IBM official support for the Oracle Instant Client with CDC Replication. These items have been identified by IBM as potential exposures with the Oracle Instant Client: - No official support for CDC with Oracle Instant Client. Ora...
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

MFA for Data Replication login

Currently Data Replication supports local and LDAP users but we want to get Multi Factor Authentication for users to be able to login to Data Replication client. We currently use PING Authentication.
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review

Integration of CyberArk to CDC management Console.

We have been thinking of adding a new functionality to our CDC setup. Currently when we login the management console using username/password. We want to store such users/password in our CyberArk and want if CDC management console can access those ...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Under review