What’s new

Important: InfoSphere® CDC for z/OS® version 10.2.1 is compatible with Management Console and Access Server version 10.2.

A number of features and enhancements have been added to InfoSphere CDC for z/OS version 10.2.1. The following table lists the changes and provides links to the appropriate documentation.

Table 1. New features and enhancements in InfoSphere CDC for z/OS version 10.2.1
Item Description For more information, see:
Db2® for z/OS version 11 support InfoSphere CDC for z/OS supports Db2 for z/OS version 11, including the extended RBA and LRSN log positions.
ONDECOMPRESSIONERROR keyword A new keyword to specify how to handle source data compression errors. ONDECOMPRESSIONERROR
showbkmk command A new command to obtain the replication position (bookmark) for a subscription. SHOWBKMK - Display bookmark information
Enhanced SMF data
  • New data in the OSC, SDT, DSL, CDI, CDO, DTC, CDI, CDO and DLR segments.
  • A new segment, TDT, has been added.
  • New SMF status segments with configuration information are written at subscription start and end.
 SMF performance segments
Configuration review report A new type of report can be generated to indicate potential configuration issues. REPORT—Generate report
Expanded support for the Db2 LOAD utility InfoSphere CDC for z/OS can now be configured to allow multiple copies of the Db2 LOAD utility to run simultaneously.
MAXNOCACHESUBS keyword A new keyword to specify a limit to the number of subscriptions that are allowed by InfoSphere CDC for z/OS to be actively mirroring if a log cache is not configured. MAXNOCACHESUBS
Table 2. New features and enhancements in InfoSphere CDC for z/OS version 10.2.1 PTFs
Item Description For more information, see:
LOBCOMMITINTERVAL keyword A new keyword to specify how often COMMIT is performed by the source engine while LOB columns are being replicated. LOBCOMMITINTERVAL

A number of features and enhancements have been added to InfoSphere CDC for z/OS version 10.2. The following table lists the changes and provides links to the appropriate documentation.

Table 3. New features and enhancements in InfoSphere CDC for z/OS version 10.2
Item Description For more information, see:
Temporal tables support Replicate application-period tables, system-period tables and bitemporal tables Replicating temporal tables
New data type support TIMESTAMP(12), TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE and DECFLOAT are now supported. For more information, see Supported datatypes and Supported Db2 for z/OS data types
chcGetTimestampWithTimeZone New user exit function For more information, see Source and target column data retrieval calls
External refresh support A new parameter (LOGRANGE) for the SETMIRSTS command allows refresh operations to be successfully accomplished outside of InfoSphere CDC for z/OS For more information, see Performing an external refresh and SETMIRSTS—Set mirroring status
ADDCOLUMNISSCHEMACHANGE keyword A new keyword to specify how a source subscription will react when a column is added to a table being mirrored. ADDCOLUMNISSCHEMACHANGE
AUDITCONFLICTS keyword A new keyword to specify if Conflict Detection Resolution (CDR) mappings should log conflict resolutions in the DMMD_CONFAUD table. AUDITCONFLICTS
SYSRECSIZE keyword A new keyword to specify the size of the SYSREC Db2 LOAD utility work data set. SYSRECSIZE
ARRAYGROUPSIZE keyword A new keyword to specify the maximum array size. ARRAYGROUPSIZE
TGTAPPLYQUEUESIZE keyword A new keyword to specify the size of the in storage queue used between the target formatting task and the apply task. TGTAPPLYQUEUESIZE
MAXPREPAREDSTMTS keyword A new keyword to specify the maximum number of prepared SQL statements that an apply task will maintain simultaneously. MAXPREPAREDSTMTS
LOGCACHEDELAY keyword A new keyword to specify the delay in seconds that will be imposed before any newly scraped Db2 log data is added to the InfoSphere CDC Log Cache. LOGCACHEDELAY
TABLEPATHLEVELS keyword The display of tables in Management Console will now be simplified to two levels, (OWNER.TABLENAME); the database name is no longer included by default. This keyword allows you to retain the three-level display. TABLEPATHLEVELS
TCPBUFFERSIZE keyword A new keyword to specify the size of the TCP/IP send and receive buffers used to replicate data between InfoSphere CDC and the remote system. TCPBUFFERSIZE
New report The conversion report provides information about where code page conversion is performed at the column level for each table in the subscription. REPORT—Generate report

The following functionality has been deprecated in InfoSphere CDC for z/OS version 10.2 and will be removed in a future release: