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Replication: Change Data Capture

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JSON datatype CDC replication support

Current IIDR CDC engine for PostgreSQL source does not support replicating json or jsonb datatype. This data types are getting popular within PostgreSQL and applications and customer began utilizing it for variety of reason. This feature will ...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Delivered

IBM Data Replication CDC to support Oracle 18c

Out of our customer base we do have several requests for IBM Data Replication CDC to support Oracle 18c as a source and target.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Key Pair Authentication for Snowflake Target Agent for CDC

As per my organization's security standards, I need to use Key Pair authentication to connect to Snowflake. I need to also fetch the private key and passphrase from secret store. The private key and passphrase will be rotated in the secret store, ...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Support remote log reading from ASMFD devices

When Oracle Database redo and archived log files are stored in ASM under Linux, and ASMFD is used as part of the ASM setup, IBM CDC agent is not able to read these logs remotely. Oracle seems to recommend the use of ASMFD under Linux, as it "simpl...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

JSON data type should be supported in PostgreSQL engine as target

Today we cannot replicate JSON data type in Postgresql Database as target. No workaround is available. A critical project is blocked.
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Need clearer / more detailed DESCRIPTIONS of the SMF fields written by the DB2 CDC task

A number of the Descriptions of the fields of the SMF records written by the DB2 CDC z/OS process are not clear and would benefit by providing more more and/or more detailed DESCRIPTIONS. These descriptions are currently located in the Knowledge C...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Provide an Operation Level Timestamp for Each Operation

Current DB2 for Z and DB2 LUW shared only the commit timestamp. Only DB2 Z also has the TS of the actual DDL time To emulate like they did for oracle to have a switch to send the DDL time instead of the UOW TS This is for the client -->FEDEX , ...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

DB2 z/OS Utilities support for CDC DB2 z/OS Remote source agent

The CDC for DB2 z/OS Remote Source agent doesn't hand and manage DB2 z/OS Utilities ( LOAD - RECOVER - REORG DISCARD ). It would be nice to have this feature as the CDC for DB2 z/OS Local agent ( ONUTILITYACTION parameter )
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Delivered

Journal Control Field &USER not filled correctly within Oracle dbms_scheduler

We use the journal control fields within IDR. Especially the &USER field. Our whole archiving solution is based on that Means we delete data with a certain Oracle USER like REPL_ASRV on a global Oracle database and the data is really deleted i...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Support for key updates for Fast apply method ParallelizeSingleTableByHash

We are using ParallelizeSingleTableByHash for oracle target. This has resulted in extremely fast processing by the apply. However for certain tables when they have key updates, the delete and insert can result in different hash key and hence they ...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered