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Search results: Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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Provide means to limit number of retries following unable to establish connection

This idea is related to real life scenario we encountered in production - we raised a case but we were advised CDC is working as designed and we should raise an AHA idea. Currently we have a number of subscriptions defined/active across a number o...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 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, ...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Restart capability for failed subscriptions

Would like to see CDD Subscriptions restart automatically when there is a failure on the Target Datastore. Our configuration is IBM Mainframe DB2 => IBM InfoSphere CDD => Bluemix Cloudant. We have experienced failures when Bluemix Cloudant i...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

IIDR version 11.4 should to support Oracle RAC flexibility allowing database instances up/down on any nodes for undefined lon

IIDR version 11.4 should to support Oracle RAC flexibility allowing database instances up/down on any nodes for undefined long period time within the cluster. For Oracle RAC databases, as long as one instance is up and running, the database is ava...
about 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Aging of connected accounts to Access Server

When a client forgets to sign out of Access Server and shuts down their session, Access Server keeps them logged in. The only way to clear the session is to restart Access Server. This is difficult in a multi-user environment (as product is design...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Making subscriptions persistent for iSeries

Connections are being closed between the source and target and ending replication. We have to manually restart InfoSphere
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Resolution for error 9506 in data replication during DDL changes

In our environment we are using IIDR (CDC) to replicate data from various DB platforms (Source - Oracle, DB2 LUW, AS400, DB2 ZoS) and target the replicated data into Datastage Flat File agent. The data written into flat file will get matured every...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

Automatic Collection of Performance Metrics at Started Task/Process startup

Today, in order to collect performance metrics about the execution of the CDC tasks/processes, it is necessary to start the subscription, and after starting the subscription you then need to specify which metrics you want to collect for EACH subsc...
almost 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

A more efficient way for CDC to process subscriptions which are behind in the Db2 logs

This is related to the CDC Db2 z/OS engine. The situation is multiple subscriptions that are behind, for example due to the subscriptions being stopped for several hours for technical reasons. We recently had 3 subscriptions that went down for mor...
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Only process the Partitions that a Table is in when reading log records in a DPF environement

We have Tables that are only defined in certain partitions but when we restart a subscription CDC is asking for log records for partitions that do not contain the Table. This causes to have to restore old log files that are not needed for the Tables.
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration