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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...

ALTER table DATA CAPTURE NONE not detected by IIDR QREP or CDC

If 'ALTER table DATA CAPTURE NONE' is executed against a table that is actively replicating, any changes made to the source data will not be captured or replicated until ‘ALTER table DATA CAPTURE CHANGES' is executed. This would cause the target...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Add an ability to start a q subscription via MODIFY on the Capture started task

Currently Q Capture subscriptions can be interacted with either via MODIFY command invoked on a Q Capture started task, or SQL insert statements executed on table IBMQREP_SIGNAL. For many customers, executing a MODIFY command to perform an action ...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Future consideration

Python 3.11.x is not supported in IBMSC 2.5.1 spark 3.3.1

Currently Spark 3.3.1 does not support python 3.11.x, it requires spark 3.4 or greater. Please release IBMSC 2.5.1 support for spark 4.0 or higher at the earliest.
12 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted

Display of replication throughput per subscription

Today Q Apply stores detailed performance statistics on queue level. This idea raises the request to store certain Q Apply throuput statistics (like rows_processed) on subscription level. Background: Today it is very difficult / sometime impossibl...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Allow Db2 columnar table replication to watsonx.data

Truist has obtained 3M+ of Data Replication entitlements in Q1 of 2025 to replicate data from Exadata and Db2 WH to Snowflake. Db2 WH table are all in columnar format and Truist would like for the tables to stay the same way. Our current proposed ...

Integrate Qreplication automation with Pacemaker

Pacemaker if can control stop/start/status q-replication , that will be a great help in making sure q-replication is up and running . Currently we have a solution to do similarly in TSA, but with TSA getting deprecated soon we would like to have t...

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 ...

Automate restart of IIDR tasks when RRS terminates

We had issues with RRS recently which were solved via a maintenance cycle. During those issues, our IIDR Capture and Apply tasks failed and required manual restart. We have the option TERM=N enabled yet the Capture/Apply tasks were not restarted w...

Require Support for Spark 3.5.x and python 3.11

Python version 3.11 is required and no current Spark versions support it
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted