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Db2 for i development team
IBM Power Systems Development
Isn't this requirement covered by triggers in the database?
Database triggers are in effect user exit points called on every INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE on a table. They provide access to before and after images of the data - but you would have to code your own metadata retrieval.
HTH.
Christian Jorgensen, CEAC member
Interesting announcement today:
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-08-ibm-to-acquire-confluent-to-create-smart-data-platform-for-enterprise-generative-ai
Maybe this should become a strategic feature in db2 for i?
Looks like MS is working on something similar:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nzagorac_getting-near-real-time-data-shouldnt-require-activity-7397667245830807552-YPr1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACLZB38BlDkrnSzHh0lQTEa1v0IPg-a38tk
and
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azuresqlblog/stream-data-in-near-real-time-from-sql-to-azure-event-hubs---public-preview/4470724
The idea was to have the possibility to stream data in realtime without relying on journals or triggers. As I mentioned I'm aware of third party products and open source, but they all rely on polling the journals at given intervals - not in realtime. Not sure how DB2 mirror would help in streaming data to Kafka or some other platform. Idea #1502 is not exactly the same use case. In that idea temporal tables seems to cover what was asked for. How data and events are transferred is not really that important here, and there is a lot of options. It's about capturing changes in realtime without polling the journals at a interval or using triggers.
The CAAC has reviewed this IBM Idea and recommends that IBM not implement this request.
The solution already exists via third party tools, Open Source, or Db2 Mirror.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual IBM Ideas on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your Idea.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
Carmelita Ruvalcaba - CAAC Program Manager
As you say, there exist Change Data Capture implementations for Db2 for IBM i.
Also see https://ibm-power-systems-cc.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IBMI-I-1502
Also, using Camel you can already connect to Kafka (or anything else) from IBM i.
https://camel.apache.org/components/4.14.x/jt400-component.html