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Replication: Q-Replication & Availability

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Feed Q Replication with your own LOAD keywords for automatic load

Recently we had opened a case TS013850174, which could not be addressed correctly b/c it requires an enhancement. Problem was as follows. Due to an error in our change management process, target table had a unique index, which was not present at t...
6 months ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Q-Capture (on LUW) supports to use a dedicated MQ publish thread to perform all IBM MQ operations...

Currently, there is "parallel_mqthread" && "mqthread_bufsz" parameters, but it only used on z/OS. Cx hopes these features can support on LUW as well, which can specify whether the Q Capture program should use a separate thread to publish m...

Add ability to have multiple Q-replication targets on Db2wh

Currently on Db2wh, there is no ability to add multiple targets for Q-Replication. Please consider adding that idea as we have business case to implement such solution

Prompt customer need to reduce prune interval

In a busy Q Rep env with many bi-di Q subs, there may lots of P2PNORECAPTURE signal insert into IBMQREP_SIGNAL control table by Q Apply program. As per design, Q Capture delete up to 10000 rows at a time for one prune interval. When the average P2...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Is a defect

MS SQL SERVER 2017/2019 Replication target/source support

Now is mid of 2019, but the latest MS SQL Server support is version 2016. Customer is upgrading their MS SQL Server to 2017 and above. And found the Queue Replication does not support the new 2017 server. Failed to create control table.
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Not under consideration

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

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

zIIP Eligible Q-APPLY

QREP is increasingly become to a key infrastructure component for customers z Systems platform resilience. However, the QREP did need quite a lot MIPS to support. This requirement is for QREP to change some part to be zIIP eligible, specifically f...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Q Apply issue a warning after exception due to OKSQLSTATES

Using OKSQLSTATES certain error conditions can be specified which will let Q Apply document a failing operation in IBMQREP_EXCEPTIONS.Today, Q Apply does not write out a warning into the log file if an exception based on OKSQLSTATES happened.Monit...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Improving QREP online operation

ABC(Agriculture Bank of China) have implemented A-A based on QREP. Due to its huge number of data volume, the maintenance related to A-A is extreme complex. The more easy operation of QREP the more maintenance convenience.1. In some case, certain ...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration