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Replication: Q-Replication & Availability

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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 recor...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

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

Request for supporting MQ automatic client reconnect

As we know, IBM MQ supports multi-instance configuration and automatic client reconnect since version 7.0.1. Recently we found the latest Q-Relication (11.4.0) even not support such a basic function( automatic client reconnect with multi-instance ...

Requesting Q-Replication capability from Non-Temporal to Temporal Table

This RFE/Idea is to request Q-Replication capability from Non-Temporal source to Temporal Table target. The existing Q-Replication only supports from Temporal to Temporal tables. For reporting within FTM (Financial Transaction Manager), there is a...

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...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

IIDR STOPQ/STARTQ request should be executed in parallel beyond the queue

IIDR STOPQ/STARTQ command is isssued from customer created automated process. They are isssued for 5 queues in parallel.Customer's STARTQ will be isssued without minitoring if the previous STOPQ queue is complete through MSGASN7176I. If STOPQ proc...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Db2 LUW - SQL replication should optionally use TRUNCATE when performing a Full Refresh of large tables

Db2 LUW SQL Replication (10.2.1) When you run a Full Refresh of a subscription set, the asnapply utility issues a DELETE FROM <target table> prior to the refresh of the data. For large tables this has a significant and unnecessary overhead...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Sequence Number management in a replicated DB2 system

Today sequence numbering in a DB2 subsystem that is being replicated to a secondary site needs to be managed outside of the replication support manually by the customer. Guidance has been given to use odd/even numbering on one side and the other. ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

ASNCLP PROMOTE to generate SQL rather than another ASNCLP Script

When using the ASNCLP PROMOTE function the output is another ASNCLP Script. We would like the PROMOTE option to generate the target SQL instead of another ASNCLP Script - applying any name changes defined in the PROMOTE command.
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 - Support for replication of REORG DISCARD events

When a REORG discard is run on the source side in a replication relationship / event relationship we want to be able to replay this event on the target side somehow. We do not want to do this by logging the discards in the REORG, of course. One su...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration