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Replication: Change Data Capture

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Oracle account can be dynamic for creating CDC instance and CDC datastore

Problem statement/pain points: Now it needs a persistent static password for the oracle account when create CDC instance and CDC datestore and the password can change, otherwise the CDC instance and CDC datastore will not work if the password cha...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Not under consideration

Update IBM i Agent to EA API

I want to check the latency of subscrions on IBM i via chcclp scripts. But this is not supported or the result is empty.
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

REPORT,TYPE=STGSP support for cdc remote source

as you know, native cdc gives us an ability to report the staging space details, thus we can easily analyze the commit scope and related unit of works per subscription within a specified period of time unfortunately, we just dont have the same opp...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

RFE: Readable Commit Stream Topic + Commit Cycle ID (CCID)

We would like to use the information in the Commit Stream Topic, which IBM uses in a proprietary format for the TCC component, in a Kafka Streams Application in order to reconstruct a commit from our source database (Db2 for z/OS). Knowing the com...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

CDC Replicating DATA of VIEW from MAINFRAME to DISTRIBUTED

I have a requirement where we want to replicate data of a view to AIX side. I am attaching VIEW DDL is it possible with the help of CDC to achieve replication to AIX table View on mianframe is as follows CREATE VIEW PPSDB01.EXPR_PAL_ADDR AS SELECT...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Data masking

Hi, We are getting the requirement to mask the data that CDC is publishing into target kafka topics. Currently, we find this feature is not available. It would be great, if you can plan and add this feature to IIDR CDC. Thanks, Kotteeswaran
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Use etc/UTC as the default timezone

Currently CDC uses Atlantic/Reykjavik as the default time zone - because "it is equivalent to UTC all year round." Better would be to use etc/UTC because it is UTC. https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/etcetera At some time the Icelandic folks mi...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Kerberos support for Oracle connections from Infosphere CDC tool

As part of mandatory application modernization efforts we are upgrading all application connections to Kerberos based connection, The only blocker we have is IBM CDC tool, which currently does not support Kerberos. We are not allowed to upgrade un...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

Have CDC automatically ignore views in source database

We are using CDC for DB2 with a rule set to replicate an entire schema from one database to another, both DDL and DML. However we have noted that if the source schema contains views, we need to explicitly exclude them from the rule set: add rule s...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Kafka Refresh with Commit Stream Parameter should check Commit Stream Topic Existence at Beginning

Problem Description: Prerequisite: Kafka Instance Parameter kafka_bookmark_storage_type = COMMITSTREAMTOPIC Kafka topic auto creation is off/deactivated New Subscription with new mappings is created Target Topics are created Issue: Commit Stream T...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration