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Replication: Q-Replication & Availability

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Encrypted Emails from ASNMON on Z

In our replication environment ASNMON is running on Z to monitor Q Replication processes on a significant number of Z systems. In case ASNMON records an exception, ASNMON sends emails to admin accounts. The mail server team generally requires encr...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Delivered

Adding of a new apply parameter DBLOAD_OPTIONS in order to influence an automatic load performed by the Q-Replication apply program on column-organized tables.

A column compression dictionary is used to compress data in a column of a column-organized table. When you load data into a column-organized table, the first phase is the analyze phase, which is unique to column-organized tables.The analyze phase ...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered

Replicating clone tables from a source data store and tables which have a clone table defined

As per IDR 11.4, support is not provided either for replicating source clone tables or for replicating tables which have a clone table defined. We need to be able to replicate source tables involved in clone relationships.
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Delivered

support for CHG_UPD_TO_DEL_INS=Y in Q-replication z/OS

we are on DB2 z/OS V12R1M509 and are migrating our applications from SQL-replication to Q-replication. we have multiple applications which use Non-Condensed, Non-complete CCD targets and are built around using IBMSNAP_REGISTER CHG_UPD_TO_DEL_INS=Y...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered

Heartbeat messages are not available in EP if using delimited format

1. As far as including schema changes in EP messages – at this time they don't have a pressing need so I would say you don't have to worry about that. However, they do want/need to see heartbeat messages. The manual says heartbeat messages are n...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered

Add CAPTUREUPTO as Q Capture startup parameter

We need an emergency mechanism to control the capturing of a limited and dedicated amount of time. Today, Q Capture can be stopped when a dedicated timestamp is reached using CAPSTOP CAPTUREUPTO=<ts>. But that is not useful when Capture is d...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered

Qrep support Removing a column from the replication key

Currently, adding a column to the replication key is supported today by Q Replication, even for Oracle targets. But, Removing a column from the replication key is not supported today. From customer operation, they think should be allowed to change...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered

Q Replication to support MRI on DB2 for LUW

Currently MRI (Multiple Row Insert) function is said to be supported on DB2 for LUW after 10.5.0.7, but actually NOT. Without this function, QREP may not meet the performance requirements of some applications , such as PBoC TIPS2. https://www.ibm....
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered

For ASNMON update ASNMAIL EXIT with certain industry standard capabilities

Due to new internal infrastructure requirements, and the loss of the Q-REP dashboard, we need to be able to send email alerts via ASNMON. In order to do this, the ASNMAIL Exit must be enhanced to accommodate certain features which are considered s...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Delivered

QCapture should recognize column with FIELDPROC at CAPSTART time

QCapture should check if the source table has FIELDPROC in any of its column when it process the CAPSTARTsignal. Today QCapture checks if the source tables have any FIELDPROC at start or reinit time and keeps this information in memory. If a new t...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered