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Replication: Q-Replication & Availability

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Document process for publication as opposed to subscription migration

The manuals document the process to migrate ALL *subscriptions* to a new Q capture task. Our scenario involved migrating single publications one-by-one (by sendq) to an existing actively used Q capture task. Please update the replication guide for...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Functionality already exists

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

Display of replication throughput per subscription

Today Q Apply stores detailed performance statistics on queue level. This idea raises the request to store certain Q Apply throuput statistics (like rows_processed) on subscription level. Background: Today it is very difficult / sometime impossibl...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

The Q-Replication apply programm shall be able to call the Db2 High Performance Unload (HPU) utility by the HPU stored procedure

Hello, in enterprise warehouse and OLTP areas of DB2 installations exist often very big databases with several tera bytes (often 100 of TBs) of data. For example we have several OLTP databases with more than 20TB and tables with billion of recor...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

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