Database assessment questions

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General What are the versions of your source and target databases?
What data types do you plan to replicate?
Will your database log retention policy have to be altered in order to retain the database logs that CDC Replication requires for replication?
Is your database part of a clustered environment or a Db2 for z/OS® data sharing group?
Do you have session limits on database connections?
Are you replicating multibyte character data (MBCS) or double byte character data (DBCS) ?
Are there any database constraints in place?
Do you want CDC Replication to continue processing the source database log during periods when the target is unavailable due to maintenance, network outages, or other reasons?
CDC Replication Engine for Db2 Database Are you installing CDC Replication on a different server from your source or target database?
Are you installing CDC Replication in a Db2 HADR environment?
Have you enabled log retention for each Db2 LUW database being used for replication?
Have you performed a database backup and scheduled regular backups for each Db2 LUW database being used for replication?
Are you deploying CDC Replication in a DPF environment?
Are you targeting a Db2 pureScale environment?
Are you replicating temporal tables?
CDC Replication Engine for Db2 for z/OS Is your ECSA storage size sufficient?
Do you have enough storage ‘above the bar'?
What is the current setting in Db2 for the maximum number of batch connections and allied threads?
How does CDC for Db2 for z/OS handle code page conversion?
How does CDC for Db2 for z/OS handle Data Definition Language (DDL) changes performed on in-scope tables?
Are you replicating temporal tables?
CDC Replication Engine for InfoSphere® DataStage® Will you be using a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)?
CDC Replication Engine for Microsoft SQL Server Will CDC Replication be installed on a different server than the target database?
Would you like to deploy CDC Replication as part of a SQL Server clustering environment?
Are your table indexes clustered?
Will you be replicating data to tables with computed columns?
Will you be replicating data to tables with identity columns?
Will you be replicating data to tables containing the rowversion data type?
Will you be replicating columns with database defaults?
Do the tables in your database have primary keys?
Are SQL Server TCP/IP connections enabled in the database?
How are the SQL Server services configured?
Is the server configured to be a Publisher that acts as its own Distributor? And does the Distribution database exist?
How is the recovery model configured? FULL or BULK_LOGGED?
What is your database backup plan?
Is there a transaction log backup plan? Do you use third-party tools to do this or SQL Server?
CDC Replication Engine for Netezza® Technology Are there any installation restrictions? Installation considerations
What JDBC drivers need to be installed? Netezza JDBC drivers
CDC Replication Engine for Oracle databases Will your database log retention policy have to be altered? Has enough tablespace been allocated?
Has enough undo tablespace been allocated?
Do you want to install CDC Replication in a RAC environment?
Are you using ASM storage for redo logs?
Do your business requirements limit access to your source database and only allow read-only users?
Is log parallelism enabled?
Do you want to ship your database logs to a secondary system that is accessible to CDC Replication?
Are you installing CDC Replication on a different server than the source or target database?
Do you intend to replicate compressed tables?
Is the tablespace encrypted?
Do you plan on creating multiple subscriptions to replicate your data?
Do you plan on processing large database transactions with CDC Replication?
Is supplemental logging enabled?
Are your online redo database logs archived and are they accessible to CDC Replication?
Will you be performing bulk load refreshes?
Is the Oracle listener running?
Are there any Oracle database constraints in place?