Installation requirements for IBM
InfoSphere Change Data Capture for shadow
tables
InfoSphere CDC software
components have specific requirements for operating systems and software to function
properly.
To support shadow tables in Db2®11.5,
you must install a supported version of the following CDC Replication software components:
CDC Replication Engine 11.4 for Db2 for LUW. Download
the installation media for IBM
InfoSphere Data Replication - CDC for Db2 11.4 from
Passport Advantage® and the IBM
InfoSphere Data Replication - CDC for Db2 Interim
Fix releases from the IBM Support Fix Central page for IBM
InfoSphere Data Replication. Use the eAssembly
Part Number to find this component in Passport
Advantage.
CDC Replication Access Server 11.4. Download IBM
InfoSphere Data Replication - CDC for Access
Server Interim
Fix releases from the IBM Support Fix Central page for IBM
InfoSphere Data Replication. Interim Fix
releases contain a full version of the product.
CDC Replication Management Console 11.4. Download IBM
InfoSphere Data Replication - CDC for Management
Console Interim
Fix releases from the IBM Support Fix Central page for IBM
InfoSphere Data Replication. Select Windows or All as operating system in this page. Interim Fix
releases contain a full version of the product.
You can install these InfoSphere CDC software
components in many different topologies. For example, you can install some components on the same
server or a separate dedicated server. The chosen topology for the documentation consists of
InfoSphere CDC for
Db2 and
InfoSphere CDC Access
Server
installed on the same server as the Db2 instance and InfoSphere CDC Management
Console installed on a
dedicated Windows server or workstation. The following
figure illustrates this topology.Figure 1. InfoSphere CDC
software installation topology
The InfoSphere CDC Access
Server requires 500 MB of memory. For a typical workload, the InfoSphere CDC instance requires
3.5 GB of memory.
The shadow tables documentation provides all the information that you need to install the
InfoSphere CDC software
components. For more in-depth information, the following table provides links to information
resources for installing and configuring that are required to maintain shadow tables.
Table 1. Information resources for installation and configuration of InfoSphere CDC
