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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Timestamp/Time values in CDC (Source: DB2 / Target Kafka)

In our shop we've got a history-concept for our db2-data, using valid-from and valid-until timestamps. a lot of this timestamps contains time-values 24:00, for ex. '9999-12-31-24.00.00.000000 (or also other timestamp with time 24:00, eg 'jjjj-mm-d...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Select multiple KCOP user exits per subscription. CDC for Kafka

Currently, CDC for Kafka allow only 1 KCOP user exit to be select per 1 subscription. Customer would like to select multiple KCOP on the same subscription such as; Arvo live audit exit with Source and Target topic mapping exit.
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Unit of Work - KCOP Commit operations

Source is --> ZOS Target is --> Linux Kafka using Confluent Bank of America is the client and they want our kafka message to be like their sample message below that client mocked up for the transactional commit : { 'Key {"CONT_ID": " 0739126...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

classify users "by group" in Management Console

When different groups have access to management console it would be easier to manage these users if you can group them. The group would be a name given by the administrator.
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Management Console retain performance metrics collection options past recycle

We have about 8 subscriptions with many table mappings in each of them. We use MC to monitor performance. I go into "Monitoring"->"Performance"-> Select a subscription and then check the box for available metrics and click on "collect data"....
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Real time replication of tables/indexes that has compression ON using IIDR (CDC) replication software

We have a need where we need to ingest data from various sources (SQL Server for example) into DB2 for LUW. We are using IIDR (CDC) data replication software for quite some time and we ingest data from SQL Server, Sybase, Mainframe to DB2 for LUW...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

CDC for Oracle support replicate rowid from source oracle database to target side

CDC for AS400 can replicate RRN from AS400 to target database, OGG can replicate rowid from Oracle to target. CDC for Oracle should support replicating rowid, it is very useful when no primary key in the source table , it can helps data reliable.
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Add the feature to map bigint type to the derived expression (Source: IBMi, Target: CDC Kafka)

We have a column in a table defined as BIGINT. We are adding the replication of it. As part of requirement, the old value of the column is also needed. Would be easier to do via %BEFORE(column_name). But this throws a message "RA MSG 2013 Derived ...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Sub should not go down if new col added at the end is not part of subscription

We have subscription from ORACLE to KAFKA and we are replicating few columns of the table. If new columns are added or dropped or alter at the end of row and those columns were not part of sub, than sub should not be remapped and once datasource/i...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Planned for future release