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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Map multiple tables in a subscription to a single target

Map multiple tables in a subscription to a single target Currently each table in the subscription maps and publishes to its respective target topic. This is not a short come of the tool, this is mainly due to the way application files are defined ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Proper Error notifications for CDC capture and apply SQLCODE

We recently had issue where CDC plan on Zos Capture was bound to a wrong collection and resulted in one capture referencing the metadata of another capture. Case TS008690724. when this happened a +100 sqlcode was shown in the capture log but there...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Support Kafka version 2.7 for IIDRCDC Kafka target

IIDRCDC supports Kafka as one of target source. At this time, IIDRCDC currently supports Kafka version 2.4 library to connect to Kafka. This request is to add Kafka version 2.7 and higher level support for IIDRCDC. Reasoning is below. We are looki...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

SQL Instr function like %substring in IIDR MC

We use IIDR CDC for replication. There are source database columns which contains personal customer information as PAN (personal account number) and sensitive and strictly prohibited to replicate it without encoding due to information protection a...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under 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 ...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Increase Granularity of Error Messages for CDD Subscription Failures

Increase in granularity of CDD error messages to indicate the reason for connection refusals.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Reading Data Guard shipped logs stored in ASM

IDR can read logs shipped with Data Guard only if they're being shipped to files. In Oracle 12, logs can be shipped to ASM by Data Guard. We need IDR to be able to read those logs.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

CDC for z/OS should use the same access control module as DB2 for z/OS.

CDC for z/OS can use only Db2 ACM exit named DSNX@XAC, made accessible to CDC via STEPLIB concatenation. However, starting with DB2 for z/OS v10, customers can use a member name other than DSNX@XAC for the access control exit routine (zPARM ACCESS...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Enhance User ID and Password encryption algorithm

Please advise to enhance encryption algorithm on User ID and Passowrd to AES 128 bit or higher during authentication and store in system.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration