Source IBM Informix #

The extracted replicant-cli will be referred to as the $REPLICANT_HOME directory in the proceeding steps.

I. Set up CDC Replication #

For enabling CDC-based replication from the source Informix server, please follow the instructions in Enabling CDC Replication for Informix.

II. Set up Logical Log Configuration #

For setting up logical log configuration, follow the instructions in Logical Log Configuration Guidelines.

II. Create the Heartbeat Table #

For CDC replication, you must create the heartbeat table on the source database with the following DDL:

Remember to grant INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges for this table to the user that you provided to Replicant.

CREATE TABLE tpch:tpch.blitzz_io_cdc_heartbeat(timestamp INT8 NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY(timestamp) CONSTRAINT cdc_heartbeat_id_repl1_repl1) 
LOCK MODE ROW

III. Set up Connection Configuration #

From $REPLICANT_HOME, navigate to the sample connection configuration file:
```
vi conf/conn/informix.yaml
```

Make the necessary changes as follows:

type: INFORMIX

host: localhost #Replace localhost with your Informix server's hostname
port: 9088  # In case of SSL connection use SSL port

server: 'informix'
database: 'tpch' # Name of the catalog from which the tables are to be replicated

username: 'informix' #Replace informix with the user that connects to your Informix server
password: 'in4mix' #Replace in4mix with your user's password 
informix-user-password: 'in4mix' #Password for the "informix" user, required for performing CDC. Not required in snapshot replication.

max-connections: 15
max-retries: #Number of times any operation on the source system will be re-attempted on failures.

#ssl:
#  trust-store: 
#    enable: true
#    path: "/home/informix/ssl/truststore.jks" #Path to the JKS truststore containing the trust certificate of the Informix server
#    password: "in4mix" #The truststore password

You have to connect to the syscdcv1 catalogue on the server as the user informix to be able to use Change Data Capture (CDC). The informix-user-password parameter of the config file above should have the password of user informix. For more information, see Preparing to use the Change Data Capture API on IBM Informix Documentation.
You can use SSL to connect to the Informix server using the configuration parameters shown above. To konw about Informix server side SSL setup, see Configuring Informix server instance for SSL connections on IBM Informix Documentation.

IV. Set up Extractor Configuration #

From $REPLICANT_HOME, navigate to the Applier configuration file:
```
vi conf/src/db2.yaml
```

Make the necessary changes as follows:

snapshot:
  threads: 16
  fetch-size-rows: 5_000

#  lock:
#    enable: true
#    scope: TABLE   # DATABASE, TABLE
#    force: false
#    timeout-sec: 5

#  min-job-size-rows: 1_000_000
#  max-jobs-per-chunk: 32

  split-method: MODULO  # Allowed values are RANGE, MODULO
  per-table-config:
  - catalog: "tpch"
    schema: "tpch"
    tables:
      lineitem:
        split-key: "l_orderkey"
#       row-identifier-key: ["l_linenumber", "l_orderkey"]
#       split-method : MODULO  # Table specific overridable config : allowed values are RANGE, MODULO
#       num-jobs: 1
      orders:
        split-key: "o_orderkey"
#       num-jobs: 1

realtime:
  threads: 4 
  fetch-size-rows: 256
  _buffer-size: 1000
  _read-timeout: 3

  heartbeat:
    enable: true
    catalog: tpch
    schema: tpch
    interval-ms: 10000

For a detailed explanation of configuration parameters in the Extractor file, read Extractor Reference.