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Search results: Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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For CDC to support the BFILE datatype

Dear Team, As BFILE is unsupported datatype in CDC for Oracle Xstream. We are not able to MAP table with BFILE datatype at source. Even if a source table column is not mapped, the CDC source still needs to understand the datatype of the column to ...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

Potential considerations of ownership and support to Ignore the DB2 re-org(refresh) at table/subscription level

We are facing severe latency issue ( goes up to 3 hours ) in production. Source - mainframe DB2 ( cdc agent installed db2 for zOS) Target : Kafka We have two subscriptions, one is having only cdc/mirroring and other having refresh +mirroring. When...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

CDC zOS Support Index with Identity Columns

Last week, during our testing of table replication with identity columns, it was discovered that CDC on zOS was unable to utilize primary indexes containing identity columns for replication. Since many tables utilize the identity column as the pri...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

Need support for Oracle clustered tables

Request for IDR/CDC for Oracle to support sourcing from Oracle clustered tables. At this time, the documentation indicates this is not supported.
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Journal Control Field &USER not filled correctly within Oracle dbms_scheduler

We use the journal control fields within IDR. Especially the &USER field. Our whole archiving solution is based on that Means we delete data with a certain Oracle USER like REPL_ASRV on a global Oracle database and the data is really deleted i...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

CDC shouldn't require a cleanup of staging store and transaction queues to refresh a table already in scope

On a shared scrape instance, we noticed that if we need to refresh a table (or add one to replication scope), with rule based replication the start of the subscription (for refresh) will fail if there's an open transaction on the table. From the m...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Support of Differential Refresh on DB2 for IBM i

To support differential refresh on DB2 for IBM i. Truncating tables on IBM i is very difficult given the locking mechanism and locking requirements the TRUNCATE or CLRPFM has on that platform. This makes Differential refresh a great alternative to...
about 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

UUID for PostgreSQL in CDC

Many modern PostgreSQL databases contain tables with columns of UUID type, which are often used as primary keys (e.g. are critical for the replication process).Adding support for replication of such tables (with UUID columns) will extend the usefu...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Improve the target mapping columns types for Kafka equivalent from sources db2z and db2i

The setting presently in the IDR replication from DB2z and DB2i to for target Kafka: KC for the supported type : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=console-supported-column-mappings#supportedtablemappings__title__7 Source type column DB2...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration