title: Kafka and IIDR CDC
body: <p>I am trying to build a CDC pipeline using :  <strong>DB2--IBM CDC --Kafka</strong>
  and I am trying to figure out the right way to setup this .
  I tried below things -</p>
  
  <p>1.Setup a 3 node kafka cluster on linux on prem </p>
  
  <p>2.Installed IIDR CDC software on linux on prem using - <code>setup-iidr-11.4.0.1-5085-linux-x86.bin</code> file . The CDC instance is up and running .</p>
  
  <p>The various online documentation suggest to install 'IIDR management console ' to configure the source datastore and CDC server configuration and also Kafka subscription configuration to build the pipeline . </p>
  
  <p>Currently I do not have the management console installed . 
  Few questions on this -</p>
  
  <p>1.Is there any alternative to IBM CDC management console for setting up the kafka-CDC pipeline ?</p>
  
  <p>2.How can I get the IIDR management console ? and if we install it on our local windows dekstop and try to connect to CDC/Kafka which are on remote linux servers, will it work ?</p>
  
  <p>3.Any other method to setup the data ingestion IIDR CDC to Kafka  ?</p>
  
  <p>I am fairly new to CDC/ IIDR , please help !</p>