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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Retrieve LOB data from the redo log when it is available there

Currently the CDC Oracle XStream engine always retrieves LOB data by doing a read on the database, even if the LOB data is inline (held in the redo log). This has a massive impact on performance and the CDC footprint
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

DB2 Replication Engine support API-key authentication without username/password

Problem Statement: With IDR CDC DB2 LUW Replication Engine, unable to create a source DB2 datastore for DB2 LUW running in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D). Since CP4D is IAM-enabled for OIDC SSO integration with enterprise Azure AD, DB2 LUW only support...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Snowflake JDBC Driver Update

Snowflake is requesting to update the JDBC driver to the latest version as they will be ending support for older versions at the end of April 2024.
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

PostgreSQL current versions 16.x support

I ask you if it is possible to adding support for the latest release 15 and 16 already released 2 and 1 years ago, on the roadmap.
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

IDR for Db2 zOs Remote Source Behavior when Changing the Dictionary in Compressed Tablespaces

When SHAREDSCRAPE LOGREADER or LOGPARSER detects a "IFI call to read log data returned a decompression error at log position.. on table .... with return code 00000008, reason code 00C90063 " stop the subscripcion. Then, we have to mark at current ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

IIDR CDC Replication Engine Enhancement to include data in transit encryption capability

IIDR CDC currently does not have any internal encryption capability requiring methods such as SSH Tunneling, TLS via use of product such as STunnel (open-source), IPSEC to encrypt data in transit. We are requesting that the product is enhanced to ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Delivered

IIDR and CDC version numbers should match.

Change the version level of CDC (V10.2.1) software to match the overall product software version of IIDR (V11.4). Version numbers should match.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Add Support for PostgreSQL 15 to CDC FlexRep

IIDR CDC Flexrep currently supports PostgreSQL 14 . This request is to add support for PostgreSQL 15 to IIDR CDC Flexrep to support new implementations and migrations to PostgreSQL 15.
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

For CDC to support the BFILE datatype

Dear Team, As BFILE is unsupported datatype in CDC for Oracle Xstream. We are not able to MAP table with BFILE datatype at source. Even if a source table column is not mapped, the CDC source still needs to understand the datatype of the column to ...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Oracle: Support for Oracle 19c TDE (Tablespace Encryption)

When I encrypt Oracle 19c DB with TDE, it fails in mirroring.However, our customer wants to encrypt DBs to maintain high security. I want to be able to mirroring the Oracle 19c DB with TDE as a source.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered