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Release Notes for IBM Data Replication 11.4 Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

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Release notes for other IDR 11.4 LUW Replication Engines can be found here: Release Notes for IIDR 11.4 Replication Engines for Linux, Unix and Windows

Binaries are available on Fix Central 

December 19, 2025

IDR 11.4.0.5-5789

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5789 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Updated JVM to 17.0.17.0, java version "17.0.17" 2025-10-21 IBM Semeru Runtime Certified Edition 17.0.17.0 (build 17.0.17+10). For details, see IBM Semeru Runtimes fixes for version 17 enhancement luw-base
  • Updated various open source libraries. Installer size increased.

Bugs fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5789 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • External Secret Store fields are missing from the Windows configuration tool dmconfigurets

November 28, 2025

IDR 11.4.0.5-5788

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5788 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Dmshowversion command output now includes Java version

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5788 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT456860 CDC Replication Engine targets - refresh performance can be lower when using multiple image builder threads
 

October 30, 2025

IDR 11.4.0.5-5785

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5785 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • IDR now creates DDL Awareness related functions with SECURITY DEFINER clause

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5785 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT448348 CDC Replication Engines do not set JVM parameter -Xms after saving configuration

Bugs fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5785 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • com.datamirror.ts.assertion.NecessityException with encoding not supported error reported after upgrading CDC.
  • MsgReaddTableshandler.readdPublishedTable() can block metadata access when getting the latest column definitions
  • External table load while mirror call to dmmarkexternalunloadend fails with "Attempt to mark end of external unload without marking start of external unload for table"
  • Message to get the DB columns for a table holds metadata lock too long so it locks out other threads

September 30, 2025

IDR 11.4.0.5-5783

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5783 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • CDC is now supported in OpenShift Virtualization clusters, with configuration guidance available in the Knowledge Center.
  • Updated JVM to 17.0.16.0, java version "17.0.16" 2025-07-15 IBM Semeru Runtime Certified Edition 17.0.16.0 (build 17.0.16+8). For details, see IBM Semeru Runtimes fixes for version 17
  • Implement a global %REPLACE functionality that would replace all matching characters in all columns of all tables.
  • IDR now supports External Parallel Table Load (Refresh) while mirroring.

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5783 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT450444 Differential Refresh deletes all remaining rows in the target table if the subscription is stopped immediate or abort

September 1, 2025

IDR 11.4.0.5-5776

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5776 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • System property target_allow_parallel_jdbc_refresh has been added to enable JDBC refresh of a table to be performed by multiple apply threads.

APARs fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5776 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT447888 INVALID TABLE NAME EXCEPTION WHEN RUNNING DMREMOVECLOSEDTXN UTILITY IF PERSISTED PRIVATE PARSER TXN QUEUES EXIST AND THE CORRESPONDING SUBSCRIPTION NAME IS NOT EXACTLY 12 CHARACTERS IN LENGTH.

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5776 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT447888 INVALID TABLE NAME EXCEPTION WHEN RUNNING DMREMOVECLOSEDTXN UTILITY IF PERSISTED PRIVATE PARSER TXN QUEUES EXIST AND THE CORRESPONDING SUBSCRIPTION NAME IS NOT EXACTLY 12 CHARACTERS IN LENGTH.

August 1, 2025

IDR 11.4.0.5-5770

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5770 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • IDR now supports cipher suites TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 and TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 with TLS 1.2.
  • IDR now supports Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS
  • The system properties queue_blocking_call_before_flushing_timeout and target_optimizer_wait_timeout_millis can now be changed without requiring the subscription to be stopped before the changes take effect
  • The system properties queue_blocking_call_before_flushing_timeout and target_optimizer_wait_timeout_millis can now be set on a per-subscription basis

Bugs fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5770 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Fixed the issue that caused %TOCHAR expression to fail with "newValue is out of valid range" error while using decimal parameters after upgrade

June 27, 2025

IDR 11.4.0.5-5768

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5768 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • IDR PostgreSQL now supports AlloyDB as target
  • Batching is now allowed when using a NetEffectConvertUpdates fast apply algorithm for Adaptive Apply mappings or during the Refresh While Active (RWA) period. This substantially improves performance in these situations.
  • Insert batching via a single multi-row insert statement is now supported when JDBC insert batching does not deliver signficant performance gains.
  • Adaptive Apply (AA) is now only performed during refresh if table truncate is disabled or the user has explicitly specified they want AA during refresh by setting a system property. This substantially improves refresh performance for AA mappings by allowing Fastload refresh and JDBC batching during JDBC refresh

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5768 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT442996 CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL - duplicate key exception may occur on target engine when source replication stream reconnects to PostgreSQL after a communication error
  • DT442954 CDC Replication Engines - subscriptions intermittently fail to start with "startup timeout has occurred. Replication will end" event

June 4, 2025

IDR 11.4.0.5-5765

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5765 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5765 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT438085 CDC Replication Engines - Event notification with SMTP fails with javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException after secret store changes. The fix is available in 11.4.0.5-5752 and newer.

Bugs fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5765 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Non inline LOBs in a JDBC batch are not closed
 

April 4, 2025

IDR 11.4.0.5-5757

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5757 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

 
 

February 28, 2025

IDR 11.4.0.5-5752

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5752 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Updated JVM to 17.0.13.0, java version "17.0.13" 2024-10-15 IBM Semeru Runtime Certified Edition 17.0.13.0 (build 17.0.13+11). How to take a backup, recompile Java user exits, KCOPs and external secret store classes are described in CDC Replication Engines migrate from Java 8 to Java 17, along with troubleshooting tips.
  • Effective July 2025, IDR CDC will no longer provide support for following operating system versions: RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7; CentOS 7.x. This extends support from January 2025 through July 2025

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5752 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT421683 CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL - when updating a non-JSON column in a table, all columns replicate except for the JSON column which has value "unchanged-toast-datum" instead of the expected JSON data

January 30, 2025

IDR 11.4.0.5-5744

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5744 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • IDR PostgreSQL now supports fastload with Aurora Target
  • PostgreSQL source now supports scraping TRUNCATE operation

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5744 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT420018 CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL - replication ends on error "The log reader has encountered a problem reading the log file. java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException"

December 20, 2024

IDR 11.4.0.5-5742

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5742 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Updated JVM to 8.0.8.35, java version "1.8.0_431" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 8.0.8.35 - pap6480sr8fp35-20241105_01(SR8 FP35)). For details, see Java SDK fixes, version 8.0. Recompile Java user exits, KCOPs and external secret store classes.

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5742 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT419421 CDC Replication Engines - command line utilities might not properly negotiate TLS settings with the local engine

December 9, 2024

IDR 11.4.0.5-5740

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5740 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Provide ability to trim trailing whitespace characters from source character-type columns when being applied to varchar columns

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5740 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT398056 CDC target Replication Engines - differential refresh log table name was generated incorrectly
  • DT416679 CDC Replication Engines - Subscription does not stop if data channel and/or control channel connection is implicitly closed due to error
  • DT418775 CDC Replication Engines - Following upgrade, engines using an External Secret Store User Exit may fail to start, reporting invalid user/password to customer database. Affects upgrades to 11.4.0.5-5735 or older.
 
 

October 2, 2024

IDR 11.4.0.5-5733

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5733 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL now supports remote fastload refresh
  • Updated JVM to 8.0.8.30, java version "1.8.0_421" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 8.0.8.30 - pwa6480sr8fp30-20240801_01(SR8 FP30))
  • %REPLACE derived expression can now replace codepoints above 127

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5733 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT395890 CDC Replication Engines - an instance being used as a source datastore can stop due to NullPointerException in singlescrape
  • DT396565 CDC Replication Engines - Target engine Fast Apply does not retry if it encounters a SQL exception such as a commit failing

Bugs fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5733 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • dmshowversion, dmconfigurets unable to run if you select "IBM Data Replication IMS for z/OS Remote Source" offering during installation

September 10, 2024

IDR 11.4.0.5-5731

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5731 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Effective October 2024, IDR CDC will no longer provide support for PostgreSQL 9, 10 or 11 (also known as EDB Postgres Advanced Server version 9, 10 or 11)
  • CDC now supports PostgreSQL 15 and 16 (also known as EDB Postgres Advanced Server version 15 and 16)
  • Users can now specify subscriptions that are not allowed to use the shared scrape staging store by setting system property mirror_subs_allowed_to_use_staging_store to false at the subscription level

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5731 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT394553 CDC Replication Engines - subscription ends on error NullPointerException when a commit fails on the target engine
  • DT393813 CDC Replication Engines - Differential Refresh includes CDR columns in update and delete where clauses leading to rows not being found

Bugs fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5731 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • NecessityException during fast apply retry if adaptive apply converted an insert into an update and Null Pointer Exceptions during fast apply retry

September 10, 2024

IDR 11.4.0.5-5730

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5730 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL now supports replicating to CockroachDB
  • Automatically switch back to JDBC refresh if fastload permissions are missing
  • CDC Replication Engines now issue a warning if source and target columns have incompatible datatypes during table assignment for non-explicitly mapped columns
  • System property mirror_timezone_support_enabled added to force CDC Replication Engines to use the source timezone when converting JCF and commit timestamps

June 27, 2024

IDR 11.4.0.5-5726

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5726 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Effective January 2025, IDR CDC will no longer provide support for following operating system versions: RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7; CentOS 7.x

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5726 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT383143 CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL - mirroring fails with "An exception has occurred in the log parser. Unexpected parsing error for table "cdcadm"."xcom_cdcadm_ddl_history_cdc"

June 4, 2024

IDR 11.4.0.5-5725

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5725 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • IIDR now provides the option of retrying the fast apply failed Unit of Work
  • Updated JVM to 8.0.8.25, java version "1.8.0_411" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 8.0.8.25 - pwa6480sr8fp25-20240328_01(SR8 FP25))

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5725 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT382379 CDC Replication Engines - dmsupportinfo command does not collect complete details expected.

May 23, 2024

IDR 11.4.0.5-5722

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5722 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT382103 CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL - Mirroring ends on error "No table context found" or no data replicates when LSN is large
  • DT258648 CDC Replication Engines - Replication ends on error "ClassNotFoundException" for Timestamp12Format class when executing a user exit that uses Timestamp12 class

May 1, 2024

IDR 11.4.0.5-5721

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5721 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • CDC now supports custom character sets that map multiple byte sequences to the same Unicode character.
 

March 28, 2024

IDR 11.4.0.5-5715

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5715 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Document userexit interfaces such as UserExitIF, DataRecordIF and ReplicationEventIF in docs folder
 

March 1, 2024

IDR 11.4.0.5-5706

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5706 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL supports Fastload Refresh
  • Updated JVM to 8.0.8.20, java version "1.8.0_401" (build 8.0.8.20 - pwa6480sr8fp20-20240112_01(SR8 FP20))
  • Increased the requested maximum number of pending connections on the TCP accept queue

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5706 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT260417 CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL - Partitioned tables in a schema are not listed after upgrading to IDR 11.4.0.4-5676 through 11.4.0.5-5703
  • DT269669 CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL - wrong data replicates for columns that follow an XML column

January 25, 2024

IDR 11.4.0.5-5703

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5703 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Effective February 2024, IDR CDC will no longer provide support for PostgreSQL 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
  • Effective February 2024, IDR CDC will no longer provide support for following operating system versions: SuSE 11.0; Ubuntu 16.04; Oracle Linux 6.x; CentOS 6.x; AIX 7.1; Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 8.1, Server 2008, Server 2008R2

APARs fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5703 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT258966 IIDR CDC FOR POSTGRESQL FAILS WITH TABLE CONTEXT NOT FOUND ERROR

Bugs fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5703 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT258966 IIDR CDC FOR POSTGRESQL FAILS WITH TABLE CONTEXT NOT FOUND ERROR
  • CDC for PostgreSQL fails to map table with a decimal column with no precision
  • When a key column update is converted to a delete/insert, we unnecessarily use Adaptive Apply as the RWA conflict resolution method for the delete and insert

December 22, 2023

IDR 11.4.0.5-5702

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5702 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Added ParallelizeByHash, ParallelizeByHashNetEffect, and ParallelizeByHashNetEffectConvertUpdates fast apply algorithms

Known Issues fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5702 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • DT256954 CDC fails to parse an update operation when a non-null bytea column value is unchanged

Bugs fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5702 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Specifying the number of image builder threads via the NullMirrorOptimizer fast apply user exit causes subscription to stop

December 5, 2023

IDR 11.4.0.5-5700

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5700 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • IDR CDC for PostgreSQL supports DDL awareness
  • If system property mirror_refresh_while_active_resolution_method is set to IGNORE_CONFLICTS, CDC no longer uses full Adaptive Apply to resolve conflicts when applying operations that occurred during the refresh-while-active period for a table. Instead, conflicts are resolved in a simpler, more efficient way that allows JDBC batching.
  • Updated various open source libraries

October 30, 2023

IDR 11.4.0.5-5699

APARs fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5699 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • JR65351 INCORRECT REPLICATION OF FRACTIONAL SECONDS DURING REFRESH IN POSTGRESQL FOR TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE TYPE

Bugs fixed in IDR 11.4.0.5-5699 for CDC Replication Engine for PostgreSQL

  • Fix incorrect product version shown in Windows program manager
 

September 28, 2023

IDR 11.4.0.5-5696

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.5-5696 for PostgreSQL

  • Updated JVM to 8.0.8.11, java version "1.8.0_381"

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.5-5696 for PostgreSQL

  • Staging store can be starved for memory if transaction queues use it all, resulting in subscriptions cycling constantly between private and shared scrape even though the staging store quota has not been reached yet

August 30, 2023

IDR 11.4.0.4-5694

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5694 for PostgreSQL

  • Updated JVM to 8.0.8.6, java version "1.8.0_371" (build 8.0.8.6 - pxz6480sr8fp6ifix-20230817_01(SR8 FP6+IJ47696))
 

July 31, 2023

IDR 11.4.0.4-5686

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5686 for PostgreSQL

  • Added utility dmremoveclosedtxn to remove a committed/aborted transaction from the transaction queues
  • Added utility dmsetrestartposition to set the restart position of a subscription bookmark
  • Updated JVM to 8.0.8.6, java version "1.8.0_371"

July 14, 2023

IDR 11.4.0.4-5684

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.4-5684 for PostgreSQL

  • IDR FAILS WITH SQL EXCEPTION WHEN REPLICATING NULL DATA TO JSON AND JSONB COLUMNS

May 30, 2023

IDR 11.4.0.4-5676

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5676 for PostgreSQL

  • IDR now supports BIT and BIT VARYING datatypes
  • Added ParallelizeByTableNetEffect and ParallelizeByTableNetEffectConvertUpdates fast apply algorithms

April 27, 2023

IDR 11.4.0.4-5674

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5674 for PostgreSQL

  • Updated JVMs to 8.0.8.0

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5674 for PostgreSQL

  • JR65266 ARRAY INDEX OUT OF BOUNDS EXCEPTION IF MAPPING HAS MULTIPLE DERIVED COLUMNS AND A SELECTED DERIVED COLUMN FOLLOWS AN OMITTED DERIVED COLUMN

March 31, 2023

IDR 11.4.0.4-5672

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5672 for PostgreSQL

  • New derived expression %ORDERTAB(), to track per table record sequence number, is now supported on target agent.
  • Updated JVMs to 8.0.7.20

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.4-5672 for PostgreSQL

  • In some low volume workloads latency can be 1-5 seconds more than it should be

March 3, 2023

IDR 11.4.0.4-5670

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5670 for PostgreSQL

  • Prevent JDBC refresh from failing with duplicate key exceptions during standard apply

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5670 for PostgreSQL

  • JR65110 REFRESH NUMBER OF ROWS SUCCESSFULLY APPLIED CAN BE NEGATIVE
  • JR65235 ROW FILTER &ENTTYP='UB' NEVER MATCHES, AND &ENTTYP='UP' MATCHES BOTH UB AND UP ROWS

February 3, 2023

IDR 11.4.0.4-5666

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5666 for PostgreSQL

  • Added support for PostgreSQL 14
  • IDR now supports TLS 1.3 in addition to TLS 1.2 for communication between Management Console, Access Server, source datastores and target datastores. For improved security, only the most secure protocols are supported for TLS 1.3 (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) and TLS 1.2 (TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256).

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.4-5666 for PostgreSQL

  • TCP/IP connections are closed prematurely when encrypted with TLS.
  • "PKIX path building failed" error while retrieving schemas from the database over TLS, even though the database's root CA certificate was configured in the encryption profile's trust store.

December 22, 2022

IDR 11.4.0.4-5661

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5661 for PostgreSQL

  • JDBC batching is now allowed if target table before-operation user exits exist
 

October 31, 2022

IDR 11.4.0.4-5659

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5659 for PostgreSQL

  • Added property target_apply_assume_db_enforces_unique_key_violations that indicates whether CDC should assume the target database enforces unique key violations
  • Do not send DML operation if column participating in row filtering condition is updated

September 28, 2022

IDR 11.4.0.4-5656

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5656 for PostgreSQL

  • Performance optimization added for applying all deletes in a batch as a single delete statement. Dramatically improves performance of applying deletes against column organized tables. Enabled by setting system property target_apply_delete_batch_via_single_statement = true

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5656 for PostgreSQL

  • JR65145 CDC COMMAND DMFLAGFORREFRESH SHOULD NOT ALLOW TO USE DIFFERENTIAL REFRESH (-DR) OPTION IF TARGET ENGINE DOESN'T SUPPORT IT

August 31, 2022

IDR 11.4.0.4-5652

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5652 for PostgreSQL

  • dmclearstagingstore no longer implicitly clears the shared scrape parser transaction queues as this is not necessary in most cases

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5652 for PostgreSQL

  • JR65123 TRUNCATION WARNING ISSUED EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO NON-SPACE DATA TO BE TRUNCATED

July 29, 2022

IDR 11.4.0.4-5644

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5644 for PostgreSQL

  • JR65092 CDC POSTGRESQL AS SOURCE FAILS TO MIRROR DATA FOR PG DATABASE V9.4
  • JR65100 IIDR FOR POSTGRESQL TARGET DOES NOT ALLOW ADDITIONAL TABLE MAPPINGS IN SAME SUBSCRIPTION IN ORDER WHEN DB2I IS SOURCE

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.4-5644 for PostgreSQL

  • Management Console shows incompatible column encoding warning message for numeric column mapping

June 27, 2022

IDR 11.4.0.4-5643

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5643 for PostgreSQL

  • IIDR for PostgreSQL supports &TIMSTAMP with microsecond precision
  • Support storing replication engine database credentials in an external secret store
  • Updated JVMs to 8.0.7.10

May 5, 2022

IDR 11.4.0.4-5629

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5629 for PostgreSQL

  • JR64572 NO WARNING EVENT WHEN CHARACTER DATA IS TRUNCATED

March 30, 2022

IDR 11.4.0.4-5627

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5627 for PostgreSQL

  • Parallel Apply is now allowed with Adaptive Apply

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5627 for PostgreSQL

  • JR64754 IDR FOR POSTGRESQL ISSUES EVENT WARNING 9700 DUE TO REPORT POSITION BOOKMARK GOING BACKWARDS
  • JR64736 WARNING 9700 CAN OCCUR AND DUPLICATE OPERATIONS APPLIED IF A SUBSCRIPTION IS USING SHARED SCRAPE AND STAGING STORE IS CLEARED

March 3, 2022

IDR 11.4.0.4-5625

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5625 for PostgreSQL

  • InstallAnywhere VM pack for CDC engine installer updated to Java 8.0.7.0
  • IDR added a new command line utility "dmimportuserconfiguration" to help automate creation of multiple product instances with user configured values

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5625 for PostgreSQL

  • JR64618 DMTS64 PROCESS IS TAKING A LONGER TIME TO START

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.4-5625 for PostgreSQL

  • Fixed possible "duplicate key" or "row does not exist" error when replication key is being updated with ParallelizeSingleTableByHash fast apply algorithm

January 28, 2022

IDR 11.4.0.4-5622

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5622 for PostgreSQL

  • IDR NOW SUPPORTS REPLICATION FROM POSTGRESQL DB WITH SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN DATABASE NAME
  • Java Runtime Environment updated from IBM Java 8.0.6.30 to 8.0.7.0. Fix notes can be found at https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/fixes/sdk8/ . This resolves IJ35231 - Missing byte when retrieving LOB data from database.

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5622 for PostgreSQL

  • JR64560 IDR FAILS WITH EXCEPTION RETRIEVING THE TABLE STRUCTURE IF TABLE OID GOES OUT OF RANGE OF INTEGER

January 4, 2022

IDR 11.4.0.4-5618

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5618 for PostgreSQL

  • JR64485 ADDRESSED ILLEGALARGUMENTEXCEPTION EMPTY KEY ERROR ISSUED DURING UPGRADE FOR SUBSCRIPTION ALERT HANDLERS CONFIGURED WITHOUT A SENDER EMAIL AND PASSWORD

December 28, 2021

IDR 11.4.0.4-5617

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5617 for PostgreSQL

  • IDR now supports replicating from partitioned tables
  • IDR now supports PostgreSQL version 12 and 13 as source and target

December 17, 2021

IDR 11.4.0.4-5616

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5616 for PostgreSQL

  • Added slf4j-api-2.0.0-alpha5.jar, slf4j-jdk14-2.0.0-alpha5.jar
  • No longer bundle log4j-1.2.17.jar, slf4j-api-1.7.26.jar, slf4j-log4j12-1.7.26.jar dependencies

November 30, 2021

IDR 11.4.0.4-5611

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5611 for PostgreSQL

  • JR64328 INCLUDE TARGET SPECIFIC COMMAND LINE OPTIONS IN POSTGRESQL ENGINE
  • JR64335 OUTOFMEMORY OCCURS WHEN TLS ENCRYPTION IS ENABLED AND MANY AGENT CONNECTIONS ARE MADE TO THE INSTANCE
 

September 27, 2021

IDR 11.4.0.4-5607

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5607

IDR 11.4.0.4-5607 for PostgreSQL

  • IDR for PostgreSql now supported as target engine

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.4-5607

IDR 11.4.0.4-5607 for all LUW engines

  • Addressed an issue causing bootstrap- .jar, user-exit- .jar and kafka-engine-kcop- .jar to keep accumulating in lib folder after product upgrades

September 3, 2021

IDR 11.4.0.4-5603

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5603

IDR 11.4.0.4-5603 for all LUW engines

  • JR64071 IDR CDC FAILS WITH STATEMENT CLOSED ERROR WHILE RUNNING ADDITIONAL SQL STATEMENTS DURING REFRESH.

IDR 11.4.0.4-5603 for PostgreSQL

  • JR64079 IDR CAN NOW REPLICATE TABLES WITH CASE-SENSITIVE NAMES

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.4-5603

IDR 11.4.0.4-5603 for all LUW engines

  • Addressed an issue causing an OOM error if there are large number of trace files
July 6, 2021

IDR 11.4.0.4-5599

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.4-5599

IDR 11.4.0.4-5599 for all LUW engines

  • Updated the Java Virtual Machine to IBM 8.0.6.30

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.4-5599

IDR 11.4.0.4-5599 for all LUW engines

  • JR63805 UTILITY TRACE FILES ARE ALWAYS GENERATED EVEN IF GLOBAL_TRACE_UTILITY_CREATE_ON_DEMAND = TRUE IF GLOBAL TRACING WAS EVER ENABLED
  • JR63847 NECCESSITYEXCEPTION "CHANGE LOG BLOCK WE ARE TRYING TO READ IS EMPTY!" IF TIMING CIRCUMSTANCES ARE UNFORTUNATE
  • JR63844 NPE OR ASSUMPTION EXCEPTION IF SUBSCRIPTION IS USING SHARED SCRAPE AND STAGING STORE IS CLEARED OR DISK QUOTA EXCEEDED
  • JR63848 MEMORY LEAK IF SHARED SCRAPE STAGING STORE IS CLEARED WHEN MEMORY WAS TIGHT

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.4-5599

IDR 11.4.0.4-5599 for all LUW engines

  • Addressed an issue causing some persistent subscriptions to restart unexpectedly after the user stopped multiple subscriptions at the same time

May 26, 2021

IDR 11.4.0.3-5596

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.3-5596 for PostgreSQL

  • JR63722 IIDR FAILS WHEN SAME SOURCE TABLE IS MAPPED IN MORE THAN ONE SUBSCRIPTION
  • JR63733 IIDR FAILS WHEN PARSING TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE COLUMN DATA WITH NO FRACTIONAL SECONDS

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.3-5596 for PostgreSQL

  • Fixed NecessityException in ChangeLogBlock on instance start up

April 28, 2021

IDR 11.4.0.3-5594

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.3-5594 for PostgreSQL

  • IDR now supports JSONB datatype

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.3-5594 for PostgreSQL

  • JR63532 FIXED CONNECTION ISSUE FOR QUERY THAT WAS BLOCKING POSTGRESQL VACUUM PROCESS
  • JR63511 AUDIT WRONGLY DETECTS THAT REPLICATION ENGINE HAS MULTIPLE OFFERINGS INSTALLED
  • JR63191 DMTS64 CPU USAGE GOES TO NEAR 100% WHEN LAST SUB USING SHARED SCRAPE STOPS AND BEFORE ITS LOG PARSER AND READER STOP

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.3-5594 for PostgreSQL

  • Fixed data parse error when parsing timestamp with time zone column offset

March 31, 2021

IDR 11.4.0.3-5593

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.3-5593 for PostgreSQL

  • IDR now supports JSON datatype

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.3-5593 for PostgreSQL

  • Product won't set replica identity of table to full if it is already set

February 26, 2021

IDR 11.4.0.3-5590

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.3-5590 for PostgreSQL

  • Improved logical replication slots handling by disabling staging store for PostgreSQL sources
  • Removed redundant PostgreSQL source system parameters postgresql_update_flush_lsn_delay and postgresql_update_flush_lsn_threashold_hours

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.3-5590 for PostgreSQL

  • JR63347 FIXED OUT-OF-ORDER PROGRESS MESSAGE SENT FOR POSTGRESQL SOURCE

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.3-5590 for PostgreSQL

  • Fixed WAL file accumulation due to CDC replication slots
  • Fixed issue of restart_lsn of replication slot not being updated
 
 

December 3, 2020

IDR 11.4.0.3-5576

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.3-5576 for PostgreSQL

  • The dmsupportinfo command line utility now dumps and collects configuration metadata in a text format

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.3-5576 for PostgreSQL

  • JR62920 EXCESSIVE DIAGNOSTIC PROBES FOR TRUNCATE OF CLOB EVENTS

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.3-5576 for PostgreSQL

  • IDR now truncates LOB data precisely based on the value of the userexit_max_lob_size_kb parameter instead of exceeding the maximum size for some values
 

November 5, 2020

IDR 11.4.0.3-5572

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.3-5572 for PostgreSQL

  • EVENT THAT ALERTS USER THAT IDR HAS DETECTED A DDL NOW INCLUDES THE DDL TEXT IF LOGGING OF DDL STATEMENTS IS ENABLED

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.3-5572 for PostgreSQL

  • JR62909 INCORRECT SAMPLE CONTENT WHEN ISSUING "DMEXPORTCONFIGURATION -?"
  • JR62934 DMTS64 NOT RELEASING IX (EXCLUSIVE) LOCK ON SYSTABLES AFTER MAKING DATABASEMETADATA CALLS

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.3-5572 for PostgreSQL

  • &LIBRARY, &MEMBER and &OBJECT Journal Control Fields now evaluate to the correct values instead of an empty string when used in a derived column
  • JR62973 IDR IS NOT POPULATING JCF FIELDS FOR START AND END REFRESH EVENTS WHEN USEREXIT USED

November 5, 2020

IDR 11.4.0.3-5570

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.3-5570 for PostgreSQL

  • UUID datatype is supported now
  • The dmsupportinfo command line utility now collects trace files significantly faster
  • The dmsupportinfo command line utility now collects all available trace files, performance statistics and events when you do not use the "-t" property to specify a time range

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.3-5570 for PostgreSQL

  • JR62779 CDC THROWS A DATA PARSE EXCEPTION WHEN PARSING DATA FOR TABLES WITH QUOTED COLUMN NAMES
  • JR62799 MIRRORING DOES NOT ENTER FAILED STATE WHEN IT DETECTS A DDL OCCURRED ON A STATIC TABLE
  • JR62787 USER GETS A DUPLICATE KEY EXCEPTION IF THEY HAVE A TABLE MAPPING WITH TWO OR MORE COLUMNS WITH A COMMENT THAT IS THE SAME FOR THE FIRST 260 CHARACTERS

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.3-5570 for PostgreSQL

  • Addressed a defect in the dmsupportinfo command line utility that caused trace files to be omitted during collection
 

August 28, 2020

IDR 11.4.0.3-5567

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.3-5567 for PostgreSQL

  • JR62737 CDC ERROR 9506 OCCURS AFTER A DDL EVEN WHEN ALL DDL PROCEDURES ARE FOLLOWED

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.3-5567 for PostgreSQL

  • Fixed Array Index Out of Bounds Exception or Null Pointer Exception occurring when operation from shared scrape staging store needs a table definition that is older than the current table definition

July 30, 2020

IDR 11.4.0.3-5566

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.3-5566 for PostgreSQL

  • Java Runtime Environment updated from IBM Java 8.0.6.0 to 8.0.6.10. Fix notes can be found at https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/fixes/sdk8/

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.3-5566 for PostgreSQL

  • JR62628 INDEX OUT OF BOUNDS EXCEPTION CAN OCCUR AT DBCONNECTIONMANAGER.RELEASEMETADATASESSION()
 

June 30, 2020

IDR 11.4.0.2-5563

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.2-5563 for PostgreSQL

  • Improved flush LSN handling of PostgreSQL logical replication slots
  • Modified NUMERIC data value handling for PostgreSQL source when no precision or scale is specified

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.2-5563 for PostgreSQL

  • JR62451 IDR REPLICATES SOURCE DERIVED COLUMN DATA TO INCORRECT TARGET COLUMN

May 28, 2020

IDR 11.4.0.2-5560

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.2-5560 for PostgreSQL

  • Instance-specific command line utilities now trace their parameters and an execution return code.

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.2-5560 for PostgreSQL

  • IDR will no longer log excessive tracing of NonTransientConnectionException by avoiding rolling back a transaction on a database connection that has auto-commit enabled.
  • dmconfigurets no longer creates two trace files when run in the command line mode.
 

April 7, 2020

IDR 11.4.0.2-5544

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.2-5544 for PostgreSQL

  • dmsupportinfo no longer collects duplicate information in the "dir.txt" support assistant file when an instance folder is inside the product installation directory.

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.2-5544 for PostgreSQL

  • JR62126 IMPROVED IDR COMMAND LINE UTILITIES PERFORMANCE BY OPTIMIZING ACCESS TO CDC SECRET STORE WHEN ENGINE-TO-ENGINE ENCRYPTION IS DISABLED, ENABLED OR REQUIRED.
  • JR62158 SCHEDULED END BY TIME SOMETIMES DOESN'T WORK WHEN DB IS 100% IDLE, SHARED SCRAPE IS USED AND SUBSCRIPTION FINDS NEW OPERATIONS IN STAGING STORE AT STARTUP.

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.2-5544 for PostgreSQL

  • Addressed the error "row already exist in index TABLE_NAMES_IDENTITY_NAME_IDX" when accessing the metadata
  • Addressed intermittent "java.lang.AssertionError thread interruption is not supported" in TraceFormatter.
  • Instance commands no longer create trace files in "installation_directory/log".
 

February 20, 2020

IDR 11.4.0.2-5528

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.2-5528 for PostgreSQL

  • dmsetpostgresqlflushlsn command line utility has been enhanced to flush lsn and release older unnecessary WAL files across all subscriptions without requiring to stop any subscription
  • dmsetpostgresqlflushlsn command line utility has an improved performance
  • IDR now closes some idle database connections and re-opens them as needed. The global_database_connection_idle_timeout_seconds system parameter controls how long to keep idle database connections open. Closing idle database connections before firewalls close them prevents subscriptions from stopping due to broken database connections.

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.2-5528 for PostgreSQL

  • JR61841 ERROR REFRESHING A TABLE WITH A LONG COLUMN COMMENT: "AN UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION HAS OCCURRED"

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.2-5528 for PostgreSQL

  • Addressed out of memory exceptions seen in dmsetpostgresqlflushlsn command line utility
  • IDR automatically recovers an erroneous metadata state that could cause lead to "An error has occurred. Possible recovery steps: Please try again. If the error persists, if possible restart the IBM Data Replication instance and try again. Internal error information: Agent Message 'Message3036' Exception text 'null'"
  • Improved reliability when global_subscription_level_connection_keep_alive_seconds is set to a non-zero value.
  • IDR now uses a different method to manipulate metadata table TABLE_NAMES_IDENTITY that is expected to prevent metadata corruption involving this table. This corruption could lead to the inability to use a table mapping or even delete it.
  • Addressed intermittent EOFException and SocketException when running command line utilities under stress.
  • Addressed intermittent EOFException reported by Agent Reader thread when using command line utilities.

January 21, 2020

IDR 11.4.0.2-5522

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.2-5522 for PostgreSQL

  • IDR issues an improved error message when dmconfigurets is run with non-Administrator privileges in Windows Server 2016

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.2-5522 for PostgreSQL

  • JR61803 IIDR FAILS WITH ERROR TOO MANY OPEN FILE DESCRIPTOR WHEN MULTIPLE INSTANCES ARE RUNNING FROM SAME INSTALLATION BECAUSE OF FILE DESCRIPTOR LEAK.
 

November 27, 2019

IDR 11.4.0.2-5512

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.2-5512 for PostgreSQL

  • IIDR now supports always encrypting communication with TLS, without negotiation. This feature may be enabled by setting Engine-to-Engine Communication Encryption to Always in the encryption profile. When this feature is enabled, IIDR will not be able to communicate with source datastores, target datastores, or Access Servers that negotiate encryption through STARTTLS.
  • IDR no longer raises an error event if it cannot extract primary index information for a table from the database

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.2-5512 for PostgreSQL

  • JR61725 IIDR FOR POSTGRESQL FAILS TO RECONNECT TO DATABASE AFTER A JDBC CONNECTION FAILURE FOR LARGE TRANSACTIONS
  • JR61682 CDC FOR POSTGRESQL FAILS TO PARSE DATA WHEN ROW CONTAINS COLUMNS WITH SINGLE-QUOTES AND UNLOGGED COLUMNS
  • JR61724 IIDR CDC FOR POSTGRESQL COMMAND DMSETPOSTGRESQLFLUSHLSN FAILS WITH SYNTAX ERROR FOR POSTGRESQL DATABASE VERSIONS BELOW 10
  • JR61637 CDC STILL TAKES VALUES IN BYTES AFTER CHANGING SYSTEM PARAMETER USEREXIT_MAX_LOB_SIZE_KB UNLESS THE INSTANCE IS RESTARTED

Bug fixes in IDR 11.4.0.2-5512 for PostgreSQL

  • Trace can now be collected reliably using support assistant in concurrent invocations.
  • Addressed differential refresh failing when order of columns in primary key differs from order returned by JDBC

October 31, 2019

IDR 11.4.0.2-5507

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.2-5507 for PostgreSQL

  • dmsupportinfo command line utility collects replication product traces using an optimized algorithm to speed up data collection

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.2-5507 for PostgreSQL

  • JR61600 IIDR FOR POSTGRESQL SOURCE REPLICATION FAILS WHEN A STRING COLUMN HAS MORE THAN ONE SINGLE QUOTE

September 27, 2019

IDR 11.4.0.2-5506

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.2-5506 for PostgreSQL

  • IDR CDC product binaries are signed with a new signing service and with an updated certificate with expiry date "Wed Jun 30 08:00:00 2021"
  • IIDR now supports dmcreateencryptionprofile for creating encryption profiles.

September 10, 2019

IDR 11.4.0.2-5503

Enhancements in IDR 11.4.0.2-5503 for PostgreSQL

  • IDR for PostgreSQL now has a new command to set the flushed LSN position for logical replication slot
  • Prior product libraries found in /lib are deleted when upgrading product binaries before new libraries are dropped on disk. All jar files with names similar to those installed with the product will be deleted.
  • IIDR now supports the option of requiring TLS encryption for all connections from Access Server and other datastores.

APARs in IDR 11.4.0.2-5503 for PostgreSQL

  • JR61457 IIDR FOR POSTGRESQL ENCOUNTERS OUT OF MEMORY EXCEPTION FOR LARGE TABLE REFRESH
  • JR61380 "ARITHMETICEXCEPTION DIVIDE BY 0" IS THROWN WHEN ONLY DERIVED COLUMN ARE SET FOR REPLICATION

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