Kafka is a Target only datastore that may have one or more Source datastores. This section assumes that you have already determined where your Kafka data will come from and that you have installed and configured Connect CDC (SQData) Change Data Capture (CDC) component on the source platform.
| # | Task | Utility |
| Prepare Capture Environment | ||
| 1 | Confirm installation of required Capture components | N/A |
| 2 | Configure the Source data Capture/Publisher | N/A |
| 3 | Update Daemon registered agents (sqdagents.cfg) if necessary | N/A |
| Capture Environment Preparation Complete | ||
Note: The Replicator Engine introduced with Version 4 requires Connect CDC (SQData)'s V4 Db2 z/OS Data Capture agent and supports only IBM's Db2 version 12 for z/OS. Prior to release 12 of Db2 z/OS it was impossible to ensure the availability of schema information describing the "before Image" in the Db2 Log.