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Q Replication for Z

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Q-Replication Apply program shall be able to recognize if a column-organized table contains already a dictionary

Hello, the current implementation of the Q-Replication apply program for an automatic LOAD operation on column-organized target tables does not recognize if a dictionary already exist. A column compression dictionary is used to compress data...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Mutiple thread Spill Agent for Queue Replication

Customer met poor performance of spill agent issue recently. And would like to request this enhancement.The idea can be either below :1) The spill agent runs on multiple threads2) Multiple spill agents serve for one spill queue
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Qrep distributed apply support log split

Qrep is used to replicate data from z to distributed environment, ICBC found the Qrep apply log keep to increase and cause the difficult in operation management, so they request Qrep to enable the log split function on the apply site. they expect ...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Q Replication to allow add/remove member in P2P replication mesh

As we are migrating our DB workload to the cloud we need to have the ability to add/remove members to redefine our P2P multi-master QReplication topology to accommodate for workload growth and making data available closer to customers (application...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

ASNMON improvements on z/OS

In a customer that has installed Q Replication, I've been working in deploy ASNMON task on z/OS side as replacement of IBM Infosphere Data Replication Dashboard tool that was deprecated. The ASN.IBMSNAP_CONDITIONS tables is used to configure the a...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

IIDR QREP ASNMON enhancement from ICBC

After install ASNMON, ASNMON will show all history alert information in the first start, ICBC expect to use any command or parameters to suppress the history alert while start, only show the current alert information.
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Ability to create ASNMON Oracle Control Tables via GUI without Federated Server

We have QREP Data Replication established between DB2 Z/OS and Oracle on Linux. We are using Oracle Native Apply on the target DBMS. As per discussions and conclusions in the referenced PMR, 85301,442,000, we have 2 issues:1) We can not directly c...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Not under consideration

Replication condiction

System : InfoSphere Replication Server(Q replication) is real-time database replication solution for better control of DB2 replication. Description : Customer want to check or before image and after image condition each row processing to control s...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

IIDR STOPQ/STARTQ request should be executed in parallel beyond the queue

IIDR STOPQ/STARTQ command is isssued from customer created automated process. They are isssued for 5 queues in parallel.Customer's STARTQ will be isssued without minitoring if the previous STOPQ queue is complete through MSGASN7176I. If STOPQ proc...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Allowing mulitple subscriptions to write to the same MQ queue

To avoid overheads on non-mainframe environments, our client has a requirement for multiple CDC subscriptions to be able to write to a single MQ queue. Currently this is limited
about 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration