What's new and changed in Data Replication

Data Replication updates can include new features and fixes. Releases are listed in reverse chronological order so that the latest release is at the beginning of the topic.

You can see a list of the new features for the platform and all of the services at What's new in IBM Software Hub.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 5.2.0

A new version of Data Replication was released in June 2025.

This release includes the following changes:

Updates
The following updates were introduced in this release:
Use IBM watsonx.data™ as a target data store for replicating data with a change log
You can now use the Data Replication service to replicate data to IBM watsonx.data after you set up a replication pipeline that uses the Change Log business goal setting to track modifications to the source database.

For details, see Choosing a business goal for the replication asset.

Replicate more data types from an Oracle database to a target database
You can now replicate the following additional data types from an Oracle database:
  • INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND
  • INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH
  • BLOB
  • CLOB
  • NCLOB
  • UROWID
  • XMLTYPE

For details, see Supported Oracle data types

Use IBM Db2 pureScale® when you replicate data from a Db2 database
You can now scale your Db2 database environment by using IBM Db2 pureScale with the Data Replication service.

For details, see Replicating Db2 data

Replicate data with IBM Db2 Database connections that use self-signed certificates
You can now use SSL with self-signed certificates to encrypt connections from a Db2 database when you can now replicate data from the database to a target datastore.

For details, see Replicating Db2 data.

Issues fixed in this release
The following issues were fixed in this release:
Customer-reported issues fixed in this release
For a list of customer-reported issues that were fixed in this release, see the Fix List for IBM Cloud Pak® for Data on the IBM Support website.