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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
8 months 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...
5 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 ...
almost 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 ...
over 5 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 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Permanent fix for Tcplisten rocketing cpu when tenable scan garbage hits port

Tcplisten job rockets into cpu spike/loop when tenable scan throws garbage at the port Subscriptions stopped during this cannot be restarted unless ending of subsystem or dmtcp This is an exposure as any bad actor could act upon that port not just...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 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 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

PostgreSQL current versions (13.x and 12.x) support

Companies from public and commercial sector are increasingly using PostgreSQL database to capture their data and many of them are asking for near real time data replication from this data source.
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

While the remote replication is active, there is a database-level lock

Hello, this is Hakan from Garanti Bank. We have been using the cdc very long time. Lately, we tried the remote replication method to reduce the mainframe cpu cost. It was running perfect; however, there existed never-ending db locks. Supposing tab...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

CDC should support Oracle 12c extended data types

Current CDC version (11.4) although supports Oracle 12, doesn't support what Oracle calls "extended data types":https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/sql_elements001.htm#SQLRF55623 Basically on 12c Oracle allows longer maximums for types VARC...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered