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Q Replication for Z

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Removed forced Requirement to force Replication Center to only run wit IBM JDK/JRE

Citigroup has a rule that only JDK/JRE that are supported by Citi are allowed to be used on all products that are packaged for general users. Currently the internal packaging team at Citi striped the IBM JDK/JRE from a Data Server Client 11.1.2. A...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Not under consideration

Ignore log records for a dedicated subscription in IGNORETRANS

In very rare cases Db2 cannot provide log records for Q Capture, e.g. in case of a version mismatch, a compression dictionary error, etc. Removing the subscription and reloading the target is a practical approach. But in some situations (e.g., non...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

SQLREP Capture and Apply

#1. SQLREP Capture Program problem There is no way to replay a single registration from DB2 log. Currently it is all or nothing when it comes to starting Capture from a synch point. This is a problem because customers want to have the ability for ...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Q Replication to Kafka Targets

Kafka evolves as a platform for real time data streaming, analytics, and event processing. For enterprise customers the challenge is to let data originating on IBM z flow to Kafka. Popular options are Kafka APIs, MQ, data replication. Only data re...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 3 Not under consideration

Reduce the number of Db2 threads when replicating table with XML column

When a table with a XML column is replicated, we observed a high number of SMF Db2 accounting records, one for each row that a have a XML column. The records are due to Db2 threads created by the replication process. As the Db2 SMF records are g...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 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...
about 4 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 4 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

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 4 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 4 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...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration