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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Azure SQLMI Target - Support for "redirect" connection type

IBM CDC replication for Azure SQLMI target currently does not support "redirect" connection type. According to Microsoft documentation, redirect connection type is recommended for Azure SQLMI database connection in order to maintain low latency an...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Is a defect

Allow ability to remove "Capture point for mirroring"

In our environment we have separate subscriptions for "Refresh" vs "Continuous Mirroring". It can be months between refreshes. We do not want to delete the refresh subscriptions as that increases possibility of losing configurations. We also have ...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Export and Import Expressions To Management Console

Currently in Management Console if you want to use Expressions created by a co-worker the only way to utilized the Expression is to get the text from your co-worker and key it in. This is also the case when you first start using Management Console...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

UI enhancement: adding Restart-options for CDC subscriptions without data

When the subscriptions failed, it always need customer to restart it manually. in banking environment there are too many subscriptions need to monitor and manage, even coding to management is also hard work, and it will impact real-time efficiency...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

CDC Agent support HA/cluster by product itself.

In banking production environment, CDC agent are often across multi platform for different database, and CDC HA solution have to depend on different technology tightly with OS and different OS version, such as AIX, Linux. and the HA stack is often...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

Support the option of time-delayed replication for subscription

there maybe meet some errant operation while maintain working. When errant transaction happened on source database, the data will be lost both at source/target database with processing CDC replication . during maintain some bank systems, customer ...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

CDC support remote connect to MySQL slave node replication and creating metadata tables at slave nodes

MySQL has a very high market share in China, and especial to banking with core business system. Many MySQL customers use master-slave architecture, typical configuration as 1master with 3 slaves , and MqSQL as source is one major scenarios with CD...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CDC needs to be able to "Refresh" tables in Parallel

We have extremely large tables which are replicated and targets are in cloud. Normally all the tables are grouped in few subs. During the initial refresh process , the tables are loaded in sequential order one by one and it takes several hours to ...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Define AVRO namespace by configuration

This enhancement is raised by this support issue https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002WX4YiAAL/define-avro-namespace-configurable?language=en_US In general we like to define the AVRO namespace in the Management Console. The current produ...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Support of MultiByteCode for IBM i Agent

We have to store data from different IBM i Systems from several countries, with diffent local encodings (DE/AT = CCSID 273, NO = CCSID 277, BE = 500, ...) into one target schema. Therefore we descided to use for character fields the data type NCHA...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration