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Search results: Data Replication: Change Data Capture

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IDR for Db2 zOs Remote Source Behavior when Changing the Dictionary in Compressed Tablespaces

When SHAREDSCRAPE LOGREADER or LOGPARSER detects a "IFI call to read log data returned a decompression error at log position.. on table .... with return code 00000008, reason code 00C90063 " stop the subscripcion. Then, we have to mark at current ...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

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

CDC must show before image when failing to update a row

Opening this RFE as support refused to accept it as a bug.Currently when CDC can't find a row to apply an UPDATE it states something like:"Failed to update a row in table USER.TABLE. VI_NIF: [364729Y]VI_TSTAMPG: [2018-02-08 21:19:40.293305000000] ...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

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

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

Replication from PostgreSQL DB with dashes in a db name

The problem was classified as design limitation. We can't start replication from PostgreSQL with dashes in DB name. During adding a new subscription, cdc agent is trying to create a replication slot , named SUBSCRIPTION_NAME + DB_NAME + USER_NAME ...
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

IIDR target agent support for snowflake

Our company and customer are demand ability to share data in Snowflake. We need CDC data replication capable to mirror database tables from DB2 Z/OS and DB2 AS400 to Snowflake via IIDR target agent on Linux VM. IBM need to keep up with the industr...
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered