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    Identify major LOG captures.

    We frequently experience delays in QREP Capture readings on our peak processing days without any apparent monster transactions. Transactions and rows continue to be processed, but at a slower rate than the actual log reads. In these cases, we have...
    4 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Submitted

    Let Capture build the transaction message with non-LOB columns first and LOB columns last instead of in strict column sequence order.

    Please consider changing Capture to build transaction messages with all non-LOB data first, then add on the LOB data after all other non-LOB data no matter what the sequence numbers. This would prevent the risk of splitting a message on non-LOB da...
    about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Submitted

    Automatic data validation by using asnclp create qsub with different data type column mapping

    Related to the case TS020335936 Scenario: Consider the following qsub creation: mapping VARCHAR(26) to TIMESTAMP(6) TRGCOLS EXCLUDE (RECORD_TIME, MES_RECORD_TIME, SITE_CD, D_KEY, CHANGE_TYPE, CHANGE_TIME) EXPRESSION ( "'MES2'" TARGET SITE_CD, "cur...
    about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Submitted

    Manage/view another users scheduled report/activities without using an Analytics Administrator license

    There are hundreds of scheduled reports that are managed by departmental users. if the owners of the scheduled reports are unavailable and/or the schedules need to be re-run, The Activities screen lets them see the progress of their activities in ...
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

    add UTF-8 BOM from within Cognos automatically

    When a user downloads a CSV and wants to open it in Excel the users normally just double click on the CSV -> a UTF-8 encoded CSV without the BOM "header" shows up incorrect due to special language characters. Adding the BOM to the UTF-8 automat...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

    Be able to add options in the cross-LOAD command executed by QREP, during a refresh of target tables

    Hello there, I have opened one IBM case for this topic. What is the point: We have some troubles with QREP replication.When QREP is trying to do a LOAD REPLACE (via stored procedure DSNUTILU), in the target table, if someone is using the targe tab...
    12 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Submitted

    In SQL replication, do not re-execute signals that have already been executed.

    In SQL replication, as in Q Capture, add a reprocess_signals to the parameters of the capture and set the default to N. Do not re-execute a signal that has already been executed if the minimum LSN is less than the last signal LSN at the start of t...
    over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Submitted

    Allow Db2 columnar table replication to watsonx.data

    Truist has obtained 3M+ of Data Replication entitlements in Q1 of 2025 to replicate data from Exadata and Db2 WH to Snowflake. Db2 WH table are all in columnar format and Truist would like for the tables to stay the same way. Our current proposed ...
    6 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Submitted

    I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

    When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

    Separate offerings for Q rep and CDC instead of bundle

    From a product patch/maintenance standpoint, the management of these 2 products has been difficult because they both resolve to one product name. But each product has their own maintenance fixes, separate SMP zones, and separate patch scheduling i...
    about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Submitted

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