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Q Replication for Z

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zIIP Eligible Q-APPLY

QREP is increasingly become to a key infrastructure component for customers z Systems platform resilience. However, the QREP did need quite a lot MIPS to support. This requirement is for QREP to change some part to be zIIP eligible, specifically f...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

ASNCLP to support a VALIDATE(NO) option

When creating new replication configurations ASNCLP checks the existence of MQ Queues, qmaps, tables, etc. When deploying to production, we need to have pre-prepared and tested the implementation scripts. However, because ASNCLP validates that the...
about 5 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...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Improving QREP online operation

ABC(Agriculture Bank of China) have implemented A-A based on QREP. Due to its huge number of data volume, the maintenance related to A-A is extreme complex. The more easy operation of QREP the more maintenance convenience.1. In some case, certain ...
over 7 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
about 6 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 ...
about 6 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...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

'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.
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 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...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Single Consistent Tool for Defining and Administering QRep Subscriptions

Consistent and comprehensive client tools are required for defining, administering and operating queue replication. Today the Replication Center and Replication Dashboard exist, and there are some functions that neither of these support and have t...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration