Hello Jim,
my question is related to a feature of SAP Data Services: the interface to Oracle CDC for the retrieval of real-time data. Meanwhile, we discarded this option and will investigate the SAP Replication Server which will become a part of the SAP HANA platform, too.
We are currently heavily using Oracle CDC in an Oracle-based Data Warehouse environment. Therefore, we conducted an analysis proving that CDC will still work on Oracle 12c although it is no longer supported. We use a small subset of the features that CDC offers. Luckily, this subset will continue to perform like it does on Oracle 11g. But we have to repeat this analysis whenever our DB admins will apply upgrades or patches to Oracle 12c. We will search for another solution if we are sure that CDC breaks.
Regards
Johannes