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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...

Require EGO RestAPI to close host via automation

As we discussed earlier on our call, we are searching for a method to provide some automation for our Spectrum environments. Ideally, this type of action would be supported by an API level interface, but the available commands for host management ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 2 Submitted

ASNMON improvements on z/OS

In a customer that has installed Q Replication, I've been working in deploy ASNMON task on z/OS side as replacement of IBM Infosphere Data Replication Dashboard tool that was deprecated. The ASN.IBMSNAP_CONDITIONS tables is used to configure the a...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Parameterize memory limit for service plc

Currently the only way to update memory limit for plc service is to edit Xmx value in script $PERF_TOP/4.0/etc/plc.sh. It would make it much easier to make that value a parameter which could be changed either under plc.conf or as an environment va...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

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 records...
almost 7 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Q-Replication Apply program shall be able to recognize if a column-organized table contains already a dictionary

Hello, the current implementation of the Q-Replication apply program for an automatic LOAD operation on column-organized target tables does not recognize if a dictionary already exist. A column compression dictionary is used to compress data in...
almost 7 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Agnostic/Generic Instance Groups and Resource Scheduler

We are in need of agnostic/generic instance groups and an   agnostic/genericresource scheduler.*) agnostic/genericresource schedulerThere is a common need for our data scientists to schedule a "pure" non-Spark TensorFlow Python...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Port config issue on deployment

We have been facing issues with pods during restart of services and found this is related to a bug gap in the REST API used for deploying new pods and the port range assigned. Please reference case TS012155811 for more details.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Under review

Add Spark3.5.1 with Java 11 support enabled

There are a lot of improvements noted in Spark version 3.5.1 when compared to 3.3.1. Immediate driver for this version of Spark is the support for a defensive mechanism against SQL injections. There are other beneficial features: Spark connect, En...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 3 Submitted

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...
about 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release