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Replication: Change Data Capture

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CDC termination for unresponsive IFI requests

CDC tasks do not issue any error message when multiple subscriptions trying to read from tape concurrently and just hang the task address space (please refer to case TS014574671 for more details). The subscriptions are still in "Mirror Continuous"...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Replication support for IIDR CDC FlexRep for CockroachDB

We are trying replicate data from DB2 to CockroachDB and we are in the initial stages of testing and we came across the Flexrep engine in CDC which can be used to replicate data using a custom JDBC driver(Used PostgreSQL). And we also tried using ...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

IBM CDC - On the “monitor replication” report is a column for “LATENCY” - remove

I have never seen a value printed in that column. Can the column be removed or include data? (I was informed that this might be a defect)
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the send any report output to a separate file.

(This option will become unnecessary if Option to remove or not display “Repl >” tags is implemented.)An option to print the report to external supplied filename, separate from the output. Name could be supplied by a “set variable” or pass as a...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the “monitor replication” as comma separated report

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the “monitor replication” as comma separated reportA option to print reports in comma delimited format. For example: the “monitor replication” prints a formatted report, but would like to receive the report in comma ...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to remove or not display “Repl >” tags

In the CHCCLP script there is a “set verbose” option to display the result of every command. With no “set verbose” option the output still includes the “Repl >” tagsCreate an option to suppress these “Repl >” tags.For example.Repl > chccl...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

IBM CDC : CHCCLP: An option to “continue on error”

When running an CHCCLP script to start multiple subscription for a source/target datastore, say 5 subscriptions, if one of the subscriptions is already started the script fails and exit.An "continue on error" option will bypass the error and start...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Allow replication from Kafka as a source

It would be good to support replications from Kafka as a source to other targets. This idea might sound strange if this were the only replication happening, but this could be part of a "cascading" replication, e.g. if data is replicated from Db2 t...
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Enhance the dmconfigurets tool to handle tnsnames.ora when it has an IFILE clause without error

Currently when configuring the CDC engine to communicate with Oracle, the dmconfigurets tool, which reads tnsnames.ora to show the user the tnsnames entries available for the connection, fails with a Java NPE error if the tnsnames.ora contains an ...
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Idea - Initiate a refresh on table without stopping the subscription

To Add an Option / Auto to initiate a Refresh on Table withAdd an option to initiate a refresh on table without stopping the subscription We replicate data from Db2 to Oracle/Kafka and vice versa and we need a zero downtime replication pipe and at...
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration