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Table-Level QMAP Properties for Automated Q Replication Management

In modern, automated database environments, schema changes and table deployments are often managed via CI/CD pipelines using metadata or declarative configuration. Currently, registering and deregistering tables with the correct source and target ...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Under review

Alter QSUB add *EXPRESSION* without DROP/RECREATE

As we know, user can alter QSUB and add current_timestamp / timestamp column without drop/recreate QSUB. But it is NOT possible to add an *EXPRESSION* without drop/recreate QSUB. With this feature, it's much more convenient without annoy drop/recr...

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...

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...

LSF must not ignore empty groups if they are managed by egroup

When running `badmin reconfig`, LSB ignores lines with empty groups: Aug 25 16:22:20 2025 11385 4 10.1 do_Groups: File /opt/lsf/conf/lsbatch/XXXX/configdir/lsb.users at line 50: No valid member in group <XXXX>; ignoring line this is ok for g...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information

Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to create ASNMON Oracle Control Tables via GUI without Federated Server

We have QREP Data Replication established between DB2 Z/OS and Oracle on Linux. We are using Oracle Native Apply on the target DBMS. As per discussions and conclusions in the referenced PMR, 85301,442,000, we have 2 issues:1) We can not directly c...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Not under consideration

Provide Replication Center and Replication Dashboard functionality within DSM

We would like to see the Replication Center tool functionality for IIDR Queue Replication added under the Data Server Manager(DSM) Umbrella. Today we are using Replication Center to administer and monitor our IIDR Queue Replication environment. Th...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

zIIP Eligible Q-APPLY

Currently the SQL Queries in QREP Apply are CPU-intensive. The CPU cost of those queries cost more than our top 5 application programs combined. We recommend to make Q APPLY Queries zIIP eligible to reduce the CPU cost for QREP APPLY.
10 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...