You may have seen
a recent announcement on ibm.com that says IBM would no longer be marketing it's older data replication products in 2013. That includes InfoSphere CDC. Why?
And what happens to the CDC technology?
Over the years, IBM provided its data replication technologies
through a lot of different products. For example, IBM used to offer two major
data replication products at the same time -
InfoSphere CDC and InfoSphere Replication Server. That was a little
confusing,
even to some IBM people. To simplify the situation,
IBM consolidated all it's replication technologies into a single product called IBM InfoSphere Data Replication
(IIDR). Once IIDR was available, the older products no longer needed to be sold to new customers. That's why the end of marketing was announced. However, the replication technologies - CDC, Q Replication, and SQL Replication - are still alive and well. You can
continue to use them as you always
have. Of course, you may have two related questions:
- Are the older products still being supported?
- How do you move from your old InfoSphere CDC product to IIDR?
If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments section of this blog.