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Q Replication for Z

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Provide Replication Center and Replication Dashboard functionality within DSM

We would like to see the Replication Center tool functionality for IIDR Queue Replication added under the Data Server Manager(DSM) Umbrella. Today we are using Replication Center to administer and monitor our IIDR Queue Replication environment. Th...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Latency Threshold Setting by Duration in ASNMON

Transaction volume is different between business time and non-business time. Different threshold should be set for QCAPTURE_LATENCY, QAPPLY_EELATENCY, QAPPLY_LATENCY, e.g. 08:00 - 21:59, 22:00-07:59, etc.
about 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

To enable capture log buffer flush periodically (Infosphere Replication Server)

Sometimes, there are too small data to replicate but busy logging which are not interested in. Q Capture log read should be quick enough even busy logging. Customer request the periodical flush of log buffer(logrdbufsz) with optional new parameter.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Not under consideration

ASNCLP Error Message Enhancement

For error code ASN1952E, the reason maybe ASNCLP script grammar error, QMGR setting is wrong of missed in PARM table of CAPTURE or APPLY, password of z/OS user is wrong, etc. That makes operation maintenance very hard for trouble shooting. The det...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Sequence Number management in a replicated DB2 system

Today sequence numbering in a DB2 subsystem that is being replicated to a secondary site needs to be managed outside of the replication support manually by the customer. Guidance has been given to use odd/even numbering on one side and the other. ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

'parallel_mqthread' parameter for Db2 LUW

Customer operates the IRS both on z/OS and LUW. IRS on z/OS supports parallel_mqthread parameter , but that is not supported on LUW. He requests to support it for LUW as well to improve performance.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

No Expression Procession for CAST_TO_VARCHAR2

z/OS has 65536 code page for Chinese character. CAST_TO_VARCHAR2 does not make any change in character. But the expression with Chinese character causes performance problem. For character in RAW to VARCHAR2, Qrep should ignore the expression CAST_...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Not under consideration

QRep Automatic Refresh with ICU Decoding

ICBC load existing data from z/OS db2 to Oracle: z/OS exported file -> UDS (ICBC application) decoding -> SQL Loader import to Oracle DB. For QREP automatic Refresh, decoding with customized decoding rule is required. It should be:z/OS expor...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

QREP supports LOB replication in A-A 2.0

Our customer is adopting QREP for data replication under proxy mode. And they find that QREP couldn't support LOB replication when QCAP runs in proxy DB2 Data Sharing Group. However, our customers have some table defined with LOB columns. So they ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

LOAD should not be restarted when Apply fails during SET INTEGRITY

When setting up Replication for a DB2 Table for the first time Apply will use a LOAD FROM Cursor to do an initial copy of the tables data. If there are constraints or generated columns defined for that table Apply will issue a SET INTEGRITY comman...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release