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Search results: Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBM i does not support XML data type

1. Problem description – IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBMi does not support XML data type. When you want to replicate the data of a table using CDC, but the table contains a column of XML data type, CDC indicates that replication is n...
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Request to develop "Apply for Spanner" with GCP Spanner as CDC target

Our cloud applications use GCP Spanner as DB that support Strong-ACID compliance writes with TrueTime ordering. Hence requesting IBM to develop "Apply for Spanner" which can build on "Apply for BigQuery" already developed by IBM. It will also be g...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Avoid locking table at the start of a refresh

Currently DB2 z/OS Remote agent will try to lock a table, apparently to obtain the head of logs position, just before starting a table refresh. Although the lock is immediately released, in some customer environments it very hard to obtain this lo...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Avoid lock table on full refresh process

We have been contracting the IIDR for z/OS a long time but just Q Replication was used until 2 months ago, so when we started to use the CDC for DB2 with target CDC Kafka in development environment we see that a lock table in source table is done ...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

Add a Feature to Replicate Microseconds Portion of Timestamp

We use IIDR CDC on z/OS for replication using DB2 data on z/OS as the source and a flat file on a non-z/OS platform as the target. We have encountered a situation where the microseconds portion of the timestamp value on a DB2 z/OS table is not ret...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Add %ADD_MONTHS Expression to Support Rolling Date Filtering

We need to be able to replicate only the data created within last 12 months based on the CREATE_TSTMP column. There is a workaround: have a Java exit for this callable via %USERFUNC. However, even that solution is not provided by IBM and has to be...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

DDL change tolerance in the CDC Replication Engine for Db2® for z/OS® Remote Source

In the CDC Replication Engine for Db2® for z/OS® Remote Source, DDL changes in the replication cannot be compensated by the product while it can be compensated in the native cdc. It is because of table versioning after DDL change (Add column, Drop...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

EndOnError, ONDecompressionError, and onutilityaction parameters in remote source

In the CDC Replication Engine for Db2® for z/OS® Remote Source , some of the native cdc for z/OS parameters cannot be used yet. We know the following parameters are in development. • EndOnError parameter till the end of 2021 Q1 • ONDecompressionEr...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

IIDR CDC replication of large DB2 z/OS batch

Replication of large DB2 z/OS batch using IIDR CDC failed and IIDR CDC development recommended to open RFE to fix this. Issue is related to how IIDR CDC uses metadata in the IBM z/OS. ==========The RFE should request that below the bar storage con...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration