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Abstract
This replaces the IBM Data Replication Community Wiki page. This page has resources for IBM Data Replication users of CDC Replication, Q Replication, and SQL Replication.
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IBM Data Replication in IBM Docs | Official product documentation for CDC Replication, Q Replication, and SQL Replication technologies. |
Q Replication information roadmap | Information resources for Q Replication |
SQL Replication information roadmap | Information resources for SQL Replication |
Replicating Transactions on Db2 Columnar Tables | Step-by-step instructions on using Q Replication with column-organized tables in Db2 V11.5 |
Continuous availability and disaster recovery using Q Replication | Best practices for application upgrades with DDL changes |
CHCCLP Command Reference | PDF version of the CHCCLP command documentation |
PTFs for Q and SQL Replication Version 11.4 | Fixes and new function for Q and SQL Replication V11.4 on z/OS |
PTFs for Q and SQL Replication Version 10.2.1 | Fixes and new function for Q and SQL Replication V10.2.1 on z/OS |
Q Replication migration to architecture level 1040 | Migrating a Q Replication environment on z/OS or Linux, UNIX, and Windows to control table architecture level 1140 |
New features in Q Replication V11.4 on z/OS and updates on V10.2.1. | |
CDC Redbooks |
CDC Redbooks covers most aspects of CDC, including deployment, HA environments, API, etc. |
QRep Redbooks | Understanding and Using Q Replication for High Availability Solutions on the IBM z/OS Platform |
CDC Best Practice - Blog | Change Data Capture (CDC) Best Practices blog with configuration tips. |
IBM Data Replication - Blog entries | IBM Data Replication blog entries from 2019 and earlier. |
Tables that quickly link you to the appropriate system requirements pages that detail the supported databases, OSes, Hardware, as well as the n-tier support for CDC. | |
IIDR CDC Training/Education: |
Presentations which provide a training overview of IIDR CDC. |
IIDR 11.3.3 Install/Upgrade | Guidance on using the new IIDR 11.3.3 install and upgrade |
IIDR CDC Configuration with a Firewall | A detailed presentation that explains the connectivity and port requirements of the different components of InfoSphere Data Replication CDC and how to configure when your infrastructure has firewalls. |
How CDC Refresh works | Frequently asked questions about CDC Refresh |
Initial and Table synchronization (Refresh) techniques | This document details the procedure of performing initial and table synchronizations (refresh) from within and outside of the CDC product. |
How to reduce CDC refresh times in a large environment | Procedure showing how to shorten the Refresh time and Log retention period in environments with many tables |
Setting up SSH Tunneling with CDC |
Document describes how to set up SSH Tunneling for use with InfoSphere CDC. |
SSH Tunneling for CDC Presentation | This presentation shows the detail of how to set up SSH Tunneling for CDC. Also describes how to use SSL for Database connection for DB2 LUW and Oracle. |
How to troubleshoot IIDR CDC | This document provides guidance on how to troubleshoot CDC, where to look, what to collect and a list of useful resources to check |
CDC Fast Apply | Detailed presentation on how fast apply works |
CDC Bidirectional Replication | This document shows the steps to set up InfoSphere CDC bidirectional replication. Furthermore, it demonstrates how changes made on one database will be reflected onto the other database and vice versa and what happens if conflicts are detected. |
How to do Softdeletes | Often, especially in Data Warehousing, you do not actually want to replicate the delete DML operation. Rather, a concept of Softdelete is used where an additional column is updated to indicate that the record was deleted. This paper describes options for configuring a 'soft delete' capability using InfoSphere CDC |
CDC Memory Footprint | Paper which describes characteristics of the Memory footprint for the InfoSphere CDC LUW engines. |
Using DMSupportInfo Tool | This document details how to collect diagnostics for support utilizing InfoSphere CDC DMSupportInfo. |
Data Movement Tool |
Tool that can be used to do faster refreshes outside of CDC |
CDC DR Considerations | This document is focusing on switching over a CDC replication instance in a Disaster Recovery (DR) environment. |
CDC Security Best Practices |
Provides best practices on how to secure your CDC environment. |
An article that details how to turn on DataDirect Spy to do JDBC tracing for CDC Oracle, Sybase, and SQL Server. | |
This document describes the steps required to migrate a CDC target from one host to another machine. | |
Starting the InfoSphere Data Replication Dashboard from Tivoli Enterprise Portal | Tells you how to view more detailed performance and health information by starting the InfoSphere Data Replication Dashboard from within TEP. |
CDC LUW User Exits | Presentation covering user exits (Java and stored procedure) in the CDC LUW engine. Discusses the different types of UEs, and provides some guidelines, possible use cases and practical examples. |
Incorporating CDC subscription mappings into IGC for data lineage | A guide that shows how to incorporate CDC subscription mappings into Information Governance Catalog (IGC) for data lineage. Uses CDC subscription export in XML format then DataStage jobs to create a csv file ready for import into IGC as Extension Mapping. |
IIDR CDC LiveAudit | Enablement presentation on CDC LiveAudit capabiity. |
Using chcclp Scripting to Target Db2 Warehouse on Cloud |
This video demonstrates IBM's Data Replication solution being used within programming and scripting languages, eliminating the requirement to use the GUI and to insert data replication tasks within scheduled processes and database maintenance. |
How to upgrade CDC Replication Engines (Linux, Unix and Windows) | |
How to configure CDC replication engines to use database credentials stored in an external secret store (Video) | Video (7 minutes) showing how to configure a CDC replication engine to use an external secret store such as Vault. |
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This document discusses the various deployment options for CDC in an Oracle environment. Detailed steps are provided to configure CDC for: - RAC - ASM - Read only source support - Archive only mode - Remote log reading - Log Shipping - Remote apply | |
This document outlines the steps to be taken to restart replication following a DDL change. Note if you are performing like-to-like Oracle replication, this document would not apply if using rule-based subscriptions. | |
Refresh Using Oracle Utilities | This document describes how to coordinate InfoSphere CDC v6.3 or v6.5.x mirroring with Oracle Utilities for export/import. |
IIDR 11.3.3.2 CDC Oracle Target Performance Whitepaper | Updated performance white paper that shows the throughput and CDC reduction improvements for the CDC Oracle apply in IIDR version 11.3.3.2. |
IIDR-CDC Oracle Performance Whitepaper | Performance study of IBM InfoSphere Data Replication's Change Data Capture for Oracle Version 10.2.1. Performance tests and scaling techniques outlined to demonstrate how over 130,000 Rows/Second was replicated. |
Article to learn how the Change Data Capture (CDC) Oracle Redo physical standby configuration in InfoSphere® Data Replication allows CDC to read logs off the standby device regardless of the log shipment method. This configuration reduces the source footprint by querying the standby database for archive log information. |
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Q Rep | ||
Combining DB2 HADR with Q Replication | This paper explains how Q Replication can be supported in a DB2 HADR environment. | |
HADR & QRep Configurations | This document describes the common Q Replication topologies that are used with DB2 HADR pairs | |
Combining IBM DB2 pureScale Feature with Q Replication | This paper explains how to configure Q Replication in a DB2 pureScale environment. | |
Combining DB2 HADR with Q Replication | Sample scripts to automate qrep failover using TSA in a DB2 pureScale environment. | |
How to create many nicknames easily | Shows you how to use SQL and scripts to create many nicknames easily for federated replication. | |
Setting up MQ Client connectivity for Q Apply | Shows you how to set up client connectivity by avoiding the use of a client definition table. | |
Setting up Q Replication using a MQ client connection secured with SSL | An extension to "Setting up MQ Client connectivity for Q Apply" for users who want to secure their connection with SSL. | |
Database migration checklist for Q Replication | Helps you understand the preparatory steps, design, and execution of a migration plan for your Q Replication configuration. | |
Example of Q Replication overhead for replicating a DB2 OLTP workload | Detailed example of a "resource footprint" that is added to a system when replicating a DB2 workload. | |
SQL Rep | ||
Integrating SQL Replication with InfoSphere DataStage | Sample files for SQL Replication to InfoSphere DataStage tutorial. | |
CDC | ||
Benchmark Whitepaper illustrates the performance of the new IIDR 10.2.1 CDC DB2 LUW release, and illustrates various configuration choices to help you scale. | ||
InfoSphere® Data Replication (IIDR) CDC supports data replication from databases running on Windows Cluster services. Follow the step-by-step process that outlines all the required tasks to configure IIDR CDC on MSCS with failover capability. | ||
Presentation that guides you through how to configure CDC automatic fail-over by using TASMP with DB2 pureScale Environment | ||
Presentation that guides you through how to configure CDC automatic fail-over by using TASMP with DB2 HADR Environment |
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Q Rep | |
IIDR QRep 10.2.1 DB2 for z/OS Release | Presentation on QRep 10.2.1 enhancements |
Presentation: Migrating to Q and SQL Replication v10.2.1 | Important information for migrating your Q or SQL Replication environment to IIDR V10.2.1 |
Data Replication For Active Active Disaster Recovery Continuous Availability | The Q Replication architect talks about active-active solutions with InfoSphere Data Replication, specifically how to move DB2 disaster recovery from a failover-style solution to a continuous availability solution. |
Q-SQL Replication and DataStage Hands-On Lab | An introduction to using SQL and Q Replication to feed InfoSphere DataStage. |
Data Replication Dashboard – Direction and Usage | Document outlining IBM's plan for the InfoSphere Data Replication dashboard component |
SQL Rep | |
IIDR SQLRep 10.2.1 DB2 for z/OS Migration | IIDR 10.2.1 SQL Replication migration, Coexistence, and fallback considerations |
CDC | |
Removing tables from CDC for z/OS catalog to reduce CPU for out-of-scope tables |
How to remove unused tables in the CDC for z/OS catalog that can slow performance. |
Redbooks - Implementing CDC for DB2 z/OS | This document describes CDC z, how to install and configure it, and how to migrate to the latest release. |
CDC z Performance Tuning for Mere Mortals | A detailed document on how to perform performance tuning for CDC z/OS (IIDR for z/OS CDC component). |
When InfoSphere CDC runs in a single DB2 subsystem, log records are accessed from the DB2 IFI using the RBA. When the RBA is reset to zero in DB2, InfoSphere CDC will also require a reset of its position in order to continue reading the logs. This document describes the procedure to deal with the situation. |
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CDC z Notifications | How to set up InfoSphere CDC for z/OS Notifications - configuring to work with automation software on the mainframe. |
IIDR 10.2.1 CDC z Performance White Paper | Benchmark Whitepaper illustrates the performance of the new IIDR 10.2.1 CDC z release, and illustrates various configuration choices and compares versus the previous CDC release. |
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Configuring the CDC Replication Engine for Db2 for z/OS Remote Source for a resilient environment |
Describes high availability considerations in a data-sharing group on a parallel sysplex cluster. The objective is for replication to quickly resume normal operations should any of its components fail. |
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This document provides a step by step walk through of the installation procedure for the InfoSphere CDC for IBM i (iSeries) product. This guide can be used to supplement the formal instructions found in the product documentation. Note: This document does not cover the new fix pack or interim fix maintenance installation utility required for CDC i 6.1 FP2 and newer. The new installation utility command is called INSCDCMNT. | |
CDC i Authorities | This document describes the authority requirements when installing and running InfoSphere CDC for IBM i (iSeries). It lists the authorities which are needed for the user owning InfoSphere CDC and the users who are operating CDC, should different security policies apply for the customer and a custom configuration is necessary. This guide supplements the product documentation but please refer to the documentation beforehand. |
Presentations which provide a training overview of IIDR CDC i | |
Chineses article InfoSphere CDC DB2 for i |
IBM i 平台的特色之一是集成数据库 DB2 for i。IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture( 简称 InfoSphere CDC) 作为一款跨数据库复制解决方案,支持不同 DB2 for i 之间,甚至是异构数据库之间的实时数据复制,满足了 HA 环境下对于数据灾备的需求。 |
Change Management Procedure for IIDR for DB2 on iSeries |
When using IIDR for Db2 for i source, follow these steps to resume replication following a planned DDL change which results in a table structure change.
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Overview with guidance on the four main integration options for integrating InfoSphere CDC with InfoSphere DataStage. Note, the first three integration options are also applicable to other ETL tools. | |
CDC DataStage Flatfile Integration | Presentation on how to integrate CDC with DataStage using Flat files |
DataStage Flatfile Data Formatter | Sample InfoSphere CDC User Exit that demonstrates how to change the default delimiter for flat file processing. |
CDC - DataStage Direct Connect Integration | Provides an overview and guidance for implementing the Direct Connect integration between CDC and DataStage. |
How to suppress warning messages in DataStage Job | This document shows you how to suppress unwanted error messages in the DataStage Job when you are mirroring using CDC and Direct Connect. |
Transaction Consistency CDC->DS->Netezza | Article shows you how to configure the Netezza Connector properly when transactions coming from IBM InfoSphere® Data Replication’s Change Data Capture (CDC) are first passed through DataStage® before being written to PureData™ System for Analytics (Netezza). |
CDC with InfoSphere DataStage for real-time ETL with Direct Connect |
In this article, learn step by step how to configure the IBM® data replication product called IBM InfoSphere® Change Data Capture with the extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool InfoSphere DataStage®, a component of IBM InfoSphere Information Server utilizing Direct Connect. |
Prepare the environment to integrate DataStage CDC with Direct Connect |
IBM® InfoSphere® Data Replication (IIDR) Change Data Capture (CDC) offers direct integration with InfoSphere DataStage® by using a transaction stage job. In this article, follow the step-by-step process that outlines all the required tasks to prepare the DataStage environment to enable IIDR CDC integration. |
This article describes a solution that is based on integration of the IBM® InfoSphere® DataStage® with IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture that ensures you capture the changed operational data and transmit it in real-time to the data warehouse, keeping it in an updated state at every moment. | |
Chinese Article on Data Warehouse and Analytic Solutions using CDC | 本 文,主要为大家介绍 IBM 数据仓库、业务分析解决方案,特别是如何利用 Infosphere Datastage、Infosphere CDC、Infosphere Warehouse 及 Cognos 快速建立数据分析应用,以帮助大家快速掌握利用 Infosphere Datastage、Infosphere CDC、Infosphere Warehouse 及 Cognos 开发分析应用的基本方法。 |
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Instructions (PDF) and video (13 minutes) demonstrating how to use the stand-alone test harness for sample KCOPs that uses sample records as input and displays the records output by the KCOPs. | |
Configuring a KCOP using customer provided libraries - Hortonworks serializer example | Video that shows how to configure CDC for Kafka to use a Hortonworks serializer in a KCOP, using class loader separation. |
Datatype values for Kafka | Document showing samples of source datatypes mapped to Kafka topics using CDC for Kafka. |
Create audit records in Kafka | Video that shows how you can write audit records by using a Kafka custom operation processor. |
Write JSON format records | Video that shows how you can write records in JSON format by using the KcopJsonFormatIntegrated Kafka custom operation processor. No schema registry required! |
Build a user-defined KCOP | Video that shows how you can develop a user-defined Kafka custom operation processor to suit your needs using the samples provided. |
IIDR-UE-KCOP on GitHub | Kafka Custom operator to write Audit JSON records into Kafka (no schema registry required). |
CDC for Kafka installation and configuration | Installation and configuration instructions for Kafka, including specialized topics such as Kerberos configuration. |
Configuring the CDC Replication Engine for Kafka to use SSL security | Configure CDC to use SSL and SASL authentication when connecting to Apache Kafka. |
Troubleshooting Kerberos | You can perform the steps presented in this document to validate Kerberos configuration outside of IDR CDC product. It is a good thing to do before you attempt to set up the replication, as it reduces the overall complexity of the task. |
Control how topics are named and mapped | Video that shows how you can map source tables to user-defined Kafka topic names using a Kafka custom operation processor. |
Connect using a broker list | Video that shows how to configure the Replication Engine for Kafka to use a broker list instead of Zookeeper. |
Replicating data from Db2 on z to Kafka and HDFS | Video that demonstrates replicating from Db2 on z to Kafka and HDFS using CDC. |
利用 InfoSphere Data Replication CDC for Kafka 实现高效数据复制 | Document describing CDC for Kafka architecture, features and configuration. (Chinese) |
Adding External Jars to custom Kcops - Steps (PDF) Adding External Jars to custom Kcops - Instructional video (12 min) |
Document and video describing how to add custom KCOP's and ship them to instance |
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Utilizing WebHDFS Apply | Presentation that describes how to use the new WebHDFS Apply support available in IIDR 11.3.3.1 |
Article that shows how to use InfoSphere Data Replication's CDC with InfoSphere BigInsights |
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Feed InfoSphere Streams using CDC | Article that shows you how to connect IBM InfoSphere® Data Replication Change Data Capture (CDC) as a near real-time data source for InfoSphere Streams. |
Comparing Apache Sqoop and IIDR | Link to the Comparing Apache Sqoop and IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) - Moving incremental data from relational database management system (RDBMS) into the hadoop distributed file system (HDFS). |
Approaches for replicating changed data into MapR-FS | Whitepaper that discusses two possible approaches for replicating data from an IBM Data Replication “CDC” Source to a MapR-FS. |
Replicating data from Db2 on z to Kafka and HDFS | Video that demonstrates replicating from Db2 on z to Kafka and HDFS using CDC. |
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CDC Netezza Support | Introduces the native CDC apply for Netezza (PureData for Analytics) |
Transactional consistency with Netezza when using CDC and DataStage |
Article on how to configure CDC and DataStage to ensure that you have transactional consistency when replicating into Netezza. |
Blog - Why is my CDC so slow on my PDA? | Deep dive on loading data into Netezza via CDC and tuning measures necessary to get the best query performance for data consumers. |
IBM Docs - Before you install CDC for Netezza | IBM Data Replication CDC 11.4 documentation for Netezza target |
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Paper that helps you develop a Microsoft SQL Server log retention policy for InfoSphere CDC and the requirement thereof. | |
CDC on MS Cluster Services Windows 2012 | This article has been updated to be MS SQL Server specific, using MS SQL Server 2012 on MS Windows 2012 |
Configuring IIDR in a Microsoft® SQL Server® AlwaysOn environment |
Links to guides on how to configure IIDR with a database that is participating in a Microsoft® SQL Server® AlwaysOn Availability Group. |
Replicating Data from Microsoft Sql Server 2017 to Azure Sql | Video showing IBM Data Replication's CDC Replication Engine for SqlServer replicating in an Azure cloud from Microsoft SqlServer 2017 to an Azure Sql Database. |
Data Replication - Live Audit Target Cloud |
This video demonstrates IBM's Data Replication solution creating an Audit Table in SQL Server within Azure, for changes made to critical data sources. DBA's and Data engineers will find it valuable to manage risk and see how data is being changed in their production systems. |
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Replicating to YugabyteDB (Video - 9 mins) | Video demonstrates how to configure CDC FlexRep to apply to YugabyteDB |
Replicating to SingleStoreDB (Video - 4 mins) | Video shows data replicating from Db2 to SingleStoreDB |
Configure CDC FlexRep for SingleStoreDB (Video - 8 mins) | How to install and configure CDC FlexRep to apply to SingleStoreDB |
CDC FlexRep | Enablement presentation on the CDC FlexRep target engine |
Chinese article on CDC FlexRep | CDC 在开放平台的新版本 11.3 中推出了 Flex Apply 的新功能,即 CDC for JDBC Engine,该 CDC 引擎不针对任何数据库,而是将原端捕获的变化数据转化成标准的 JDBC 模式,然后通过用户提供相应的 JDBC driver,应用到不同的数据库中。本文将对 CDC 架构及其工作原理做基本介绍并详述如何使用 CDC 的新功能 Flex Apply 将 Oracle 数据复制到 EnterpriseDB 中。 |
Replication to MongoDB using a user exit |
This presentation describes how to set up a simple replication to MongoDB using a basic user exit. |
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This paper illustrates how to set up InfoSphere CDC for Sybase on a remote machine. |
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Guide to Setting Up IIDR's CDC Event Server 10.2.0 with WebSphere MQ 7.5 |
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Shows the different CDC options when replicating to Teradata |
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Enablement presentation on the IIDR 11.3.3.1 Cloudant apply support |
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IBM Data Replication - Creating a Change Audit Table on Cloud (Video - 8 min) | Video - using Management Console to replicate changes in on-premise Db2 data to SQLServer inside the Microsoft Azure Cloud |
IBM Data Replication - Scripting Replication Subscriptions for Cloud Data Warehouses (Video - 5 min 25 s) | Video - using CHCCLP to capture changes made in on-premise Oracle databases to feed Db2 Warehouse on Cloud |
CHCCLP help in HTML format and bash script that generates it. More samples available on IIDR Samples. | |
Management Console (MC) Monitoring API | An article on collecting InfoSphere CDC subscription health metrics utilizing the MC Java monitor APIs |
CHCCLP Scripting | Presentation that explains how to use the CDC CHCCLP scripting language |
CHCCLP Tutorial: |
Tutorials that illustrate how to utilize many of the capabilities of the CHCCLP command language. |
Collect performance/latency statistics via CHCCLP | Collect Performance Stats of Subscriptions from CHCCLP and turn them into usable real time reports |
Demo : Standard vs Adaptive table mapping | Demo video on Standard Mapping Vs Adaptive Apply Mapping in IBM Data Replication |
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IIDR CDC LUW Performance Tuning | This document describes in detail how to perform performance tuning for the InfoSphere Data Replication CDC LUW source and target engines. |
Demo - Collecting Performance Statistics & Snapshot in IBM Data Replication | This video shows a demo on how to collect performance statistics for a subscription and how to export the statistics to a file and how to collect snapshots automatically over a given interval of time from Management Console GUI and CHCCLP scripting |
https://github.com/fketelaars/IIDR-Stats-Warehouse | SAMPLE CODE : This toolkit captures the InfoSphere Data Replication CDC (CDC) status, metrics and events and stores them into fact tables in a database of your choice, or logs them into flat files. |
CDC z Performance Tuning for Mere Mortals | A detailed document on how to perform performance tuning for CDC z/OS (IIDR for z/OS CDC component). |
This document describes performance tuning best practices for InfoSphere CDC 6.5. | |
Benchmark Whitepaper illustrates the performance of the IIDR 10.2.1 CDC DB2 LUW release, and illustrates various configuration choices to help you scale. | |
IIDR 11.3.3.2 CDC Oracle Target Performance Whitepaper | Updated performance white paper that shows the throughput and CDC reduction improvements for the CDC Oracle apply in IIDR version 11.3.3.2. |
IIDR-CDC Oracle Performance Whitepaper | Performance study of IBM InfoSphere Data Replication's Change Data Capture for Oracle Version 10.2.1. Performance tests and scaling techniques outlined to demonstrate how over 130,000 Rows/Second was replicated. |
IIDR 10.2.1 CDC z Performance White Paper | Benchmark Whitepaper illustrates the performance of the IIDR 10.2.1 CDC z release, and illustrates various configuration choices and compares versus the previous CDC release. |
Performance test report - CDC for z/OS to CDC for Kafka | This study shows the throughput in rows per second for the CDC Db2 for z/OS engine (native) to CDC for Kafka 11.4. |
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