To perform administrative tasks in PowerExchange CDC Publisher, you primarily use the PwxCDCAdmin utility. Check that your file system security allows you to have access to the PwxCDCAdmin utility script.
This section covers the following PwxCDCAdmin administrative tasks:
Reporting the current Avro format definitions in a legible format, which can be used for validation and by consumer applications
Handling changes to the source table structure, such as added or dropped columns
Adding a source table to the change stream of a PowerExchange CDC Publisher process
Encrypting a password for use in the pwxNodePwd or pwxXmapPwd property in the cdcPublisherPowerExchange.cfg configuration file
Shutting down a PowerExchange CDC Publisher process
This section also describes how to restart the PwxCDCPublisher utility after it shuts down or ends abnormally using an override restart position in the PowerExchange Logger log records.