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Replication: Q-Replication & Availability

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Reduce the number of Db2 threads when replicating table with XML column

When a table with a XML column is replicated, we observed a high number of SMF Db2 accounting records, one for each row that a have a XML column. The records are due to Db2 threads created by the replication process. As the Db2 SMF records are goi...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Document process for publication as opposed to subscription migration

The manuals document the process to migrate ALL *subscriptions* to a new Q capture task. Our scenario involved migrating single publications one-by-one (by sendq) to an existing actively used Q capture task. Please update the replication guide for...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Functionality already exists

IIDR QREP ASNMON enhancement from ICBC

After install ASNMON, ASNMON will show all history alert information in the first start, ICBC expect to use any command or parameters to suppress the history alert while start, only show the current alert information.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Replication condiction

System : InfoSphere Replication Server(Q replication) is real-time database replication solution for better control of DB2 replication. Description : Customer want to check or before image and after image condition each row processing to control s...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Allowing mulitple subscriptions to write to the same MQ queue

To avoid overheads on non-mainframe environments, our client has a requirement for multiple CDC subscriptions to be able to write to a single MQ queue. Currently this is limited
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

To enable capture log buffer flush periodically (Infosphere Replication Server)

Sometimes, there are too small data to replicate but busy logging which are not interested in. Q Capture log read should be quick enough even busy logging. Customer request the periodical flush of log buffer(logrdbufsz) with optional new parameter.
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Not under consideration

No Expression Procession for CAST_TO_VARCHAR2

z/OS has 65536 code page for Chinese character. CAST_TO_VARCHAR2 does not make any change in character. But the expression with Chinese character causes performance problem. For character in RAW to VARCHAR2, Qrep should ignore the expression CAST_...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Not under consideration

QRep Automatic Refresh with ICU Decoding

ICBC load existing data from z/OS db2 to Oracle: z/OS exported file -> UDS (ICBC application) decoding -> SQL Loader import to Oracle DB. For QREP automatic Refresh, decoding with customized decoding rule is required. It should be:z/OS expor...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

QREP supports LOB replication in A-A 2.0

Our customer is adopting QREP for data replication under proxy mode. And they find that QREP couldn't support LOB replication when QCAP runs in proxy DB2 Data Sharing Group. However, our customers have some table defined with LOB columns. So they ...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Alternative of Updating All or Changed Fields for SQL Update

When replication of SQL Update, only changed fields are updated now. The data consistency cannot be guaranteed if any changes are happened during the period of no replication is executed. All fields updating is required for SQL Update data replica...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release