Critical Issue For years, United Rentals struggled to maintain duel replication from the source IBM i system to two Teradata environments. They leveraged a CDC/data replication technology to stream data continuously to both systems, but if there was a network communication issue (no matter how brief) the replication process would crash. This replication failure would result in their production data warehouse process to not build at night and as a result fail to send out critical scorecards to the executive team and branches. It would take hours to understand the failure point, restart the replication, get the data back in synch and perform necessary validations. They also would identify “gaps” in the data where the starting point was set incorrectly and as a result they were m

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