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Replication: Q-Replication & Availability

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'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

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

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

Alternative of Updating All or Changed Fields for SQL Update

When replication of SQL Update, only changed fields are updated now. The data consistency cannot be guaranteed if any changes are happened during the period of no replication is executed. All fields updating is required for SQL Update data replica...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

ALTER table DATA CAPTURE NONE not detected by IIDR QREP or CDC

If 'ALTER table DATA CAPTURE NONE' is executed against a table that is actively replicating, any changes made to the source data will not be captured or replicated until ‘ALTER table DATA CAPTURE CHANGES' is executed. This would cause the target...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

QREP DDL replication, add UNICODE factor for column length

When replicating from non-unicode to unicode, the legth of char/varchar target columns needs to be extended. Example: create all CHAR/VARCHAR columns at the target with source_length*2 and implemented an additional life belt with OKSQLSTATES = 220...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

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