• InfoSphere Replication Server and InfoSphere Data Event Publisher group on My developerWorks (Community)
  An exchange of ideas, answers, links, and samples for information integration and data replication.
• Combining IBM DB2 pureScale with Q Replication (Article)
  Configuration choices, concepts, deployment, and operation procedures to achieve continuous availability with DB2 pureScale and Q replication.
• IBM InfoSphere Replication Server and InfoSphere Data Event Publisher (Retail book)
  Shows you how to design, implement, and monitor a successful Q replication and event publishing project.
• Introduction to replication and publishing (Information Center)
  Describes the basics of Q replication, SQL replication, and event publishing along with business cases to illustrate the uses of each.
• Q replication tutorial (Tutorial)
  Shows you how to set up and run Q replication, with step-by-step instructions for both InfoSphere Replication Server and WebSphere MQ.
• WebSphere Information Integrator Q replication: Fast Track Implementation Scenarios (Redbook)
  Provides guidelines for using Q replication in high availability and high performance distributed business solutions on z/OS and AIX platforms.
• The Next Generation: Q Replication (Article)
  DB2 magazine article explains how WebSphere Information Integrator's new messaging-based architecture keeps latency low for even the most demanding applications
• WebSphere MQ information center (Information Center)
  Online documentation for WebSphere MQ, an integral component of Q replication.
• System requirements for InfoSphere Replication Server for z/OS (Web)
  Requirements for z/OS operating systems
• System requirements for InfoSphere Replication Server (Web)
  Requirements for AIX, Linux, Solaris, and Windows operating systems.
• WebSphere Replication Server Using Q Replication High Availability Scenarios for the AIX Platform (Redbook)
  Describes a failover or switchback scenario for bidirectional Q replication on AIX, and an HADR and Q replication coexistence scenario.
• WebSphere Replication Server for z/OS Using Q Replication High Availability Scenarios for the z/OS Platform (Redbook)
  Describes a failover or switchback scenario for bidirectional Q replication on z/OS, and WebSphere MQ shared disk and shared queue scenarios.

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• Installing and customizing for z/OS (Information Center)
  Companion to the Program Directory for IBM InfoSphere Replication Server for z/OS V10.01.00 that helps you install and configure a replication environment.
• Installing on Linux, UNIX, and Windows (Information Center)
  Describes hardware and software requirements and installation steps for InfoSphere Replication Server on Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
• Program Directory for IBM InfoSphere Replication Server for z/OS V10.01.00 (PDF)
  Describes installation and configuration steps for Version 10.1 replication on z/OS.

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• Migrating to replication and event publishing Version 10 (z/OS) (Information Center)
  Describes how to migrate a Q replication or event publishing environment to Version 10 on z/OS.
• Migrating to replication and event publishing Version 9.7 Fix Pack 3 (Information Center)
  Describes how to migrate a Q replication or event publishing environment to Version 9.7 Fix Pack 3 on Linux, UNIX, and Windows.

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• WebSphere MQ graphical checklists (Techdoc)
  Download graphical tools that generate WebSphere MQ setup scripts for Q replication and event publishing.
• Setting up WebSphere MQ for Q replication and event publishing (Information Center)
  Topics include sample commands for creating WebSphere MQ objects, objects required for different replication configurations, required settings, and memory, storage, and authorization requirements.
• Password file management (Information Center)
  Explains how to store user IDs and passwords in an encrypted password file.
• Preparing to create Q subscriptions and publications (Information Center)
  Topics explain connectivity requirements, setting up WebSphere MQ, configuring databases, and creating the infrastructure for Q replication (the control tables).
• Installing and configuring for Oracle targets on Linux and UNIX (Information Center)
  Step-by-step instructions for setting up Q replication to an Oracle target database.
• Q replication to Oracle and Sybase (Article)
  IBM developerWorks article describes Q replication's federated capability and helps you set up replication to Oracle and Sybase targets.
• Setting up unidirectional replication (Information Center)
  Topics describe how to create one-way Q subscriptions, how to specify the queues that you need, and how to manipulate source data.
• Setting up multidirectional replication (Information Center)
  Topics describe how to create Q subscriptions for bidirectional and peer-to-peer replication and how to specify the queues that you need.
• Q replication to federated targets (Information Center)
  Topics describe how to create control tables, Q subscriptions, and federated objects for replication to Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, and Teradata.

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• Operating a Q Capture program (Information Center)
  Topics describe how to start, stop, and change parameters for the program that reads the database log and puts source table changes on queues as messages.
• Operating a Q Apply program (Information Center)
  Topics describe how to start, stop, and change parameters for the program that gets messages from queues and applies them to target tables.
• Changing a Q replication environment (Information Center)
  Topics describe how to change, drop, and delete Q replication objects and make other changes to a Q replication environment.

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• Replication live: Use the Q Replication Dashboard for real-time monitoring (Tutorial)
  Provides scripts to quickly set up a working replication environment and shows you how to use the dashboard that is part of Data Studio Administration Console to view latency and throughput, spot problems, and analyze performance.
• Q Replication Tools (Download)
  Download tools to help configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Q replication and event publishing.
• Replication Alert Monitor (Information Center)
  Topics describe how to create and operate a Monitor and include information about system commands and control tables.
• Q replication tuning (Information Center)
  Topics explain how to tune DB2, the replication programs, and WebSphere MQ for optimal Q replication performance.
• WebSphere Information Integrator Q replication: Performance considerations (White paper)
  Details Q replication architecture, levels of performance to expect, and factors influencing performance. Provides laboratory measurements on AIX and z/OS platforms.
• IBM Tivoli monitoring for Q Replication (White paper)
  How to access Q replication monitoring information, bring the data into the Tivoli platform, and use Tivoli alerts and situations when critical Q replication events occur.

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• Q Replication troubleshooting (Information Center)
  Helps you understand, isolate, and resolve problems with Q replication and event publishing.
• Q Replication recovery (Article)
  Learn about key recovery techniques and principles, and get recommendations for planning, monitoring, and collecting service diagnostics.
• InfoSphere Replication Server for z/OS support (Technotes)
  Search for Technotes with about configuring and troubleshooting your replication environment.
• InfoSphere Replication Server support (Technotes)
  Search for Technotes with about configuring and troubleshooting your replication environment.
• Detecting and repairing differences between source and target tables (Information Center)
  Describes the asntdiff and asntrepair utilities, which automatically find and resolve differences between source and target tables.

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• ASNCLP commands for replication and event publishing (Information Center)
  Describes how to use the command-line interface for replication and event publishing.
• System commands for Q replication (Information Center)
  Topics describe the commands for Linux, UNIX, Windows, and z/OS operating systems that you can use to start, operate, and modify the replication programs.
• Replication error messages (Information Center)
  Provides messages that are issued for the replication programs on all supported operating systems except DB2 for iSeries, listed in numeric sequence.
• Structure of Q replication control tables (Information Center)
  Topics describe the columns and data definitions for the Q Capture and Q Apply control tables.

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• Replication training path (Education)
  Training path with links to classroom and online courses for Q replication and event publishing.

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  We want to improve IBM software for you. Take the Consumability Survey.

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