Limitations and considerations

When using IBM DB2 for LUW as a database in a Replicate task, the following limitations currently apply:

• Clustered database is not supported

  Information note

  Users can define a separate IBM DB2 for LUW database for each of the endpoints in the cluster.

• Change processing limitations:

  • When truncating a table with multiple partitions, the number of DDL events displayed in the Replicate console will be equal to the number of partitions. This is because IBM DB2 for LUW records a separate DDL for each partition.

  • The following DDLs on partitioned tables are not supported:

    • ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION
    • ALTER TABLE DETACH PARTITION
    • ALTER TABLE ATTACH PARTITION
  • Change processing does not support the DECFLOAT data type. Consequently, changes to DECFLOAT columns will be ignored during CDC.
  • The RENAME COLUMN statement is not captured.
  • When performing updates on MDC (Multi-Dimensional Clustering) tables, each update is shown in the Replicate console as INSERT + DELETE.
  • When the Replicate LOB columns task setting is disabled, any table that has LOB columns will be suspended during change processing.
  • When the Audit table option is enabled in the Store Changes Settings tab, the first timestamp record in the audit table will be NULL.
  • When the Change table option is enabled in the Store Changes Settings tab, the first timestamp record in the table may be Zero in some cases (i.e. 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000).
  • DB2 10.5 or later: Variable-length string columns with data that is stored out-of-row will be ignored. Note that this limitation is only applicable to tables created with extended row size.

  • The Purescale environment is supported using the Start processing changes from source change position Run option only.

  • A DDL operation that occurs during Full Load, but that was not preceded by a DML operation will not be captured.