What's new for IBM i 7.4
The following information was added or updated in this release of the information.
- This topic was added in IBM® i 7.4
What’s new since the first IBM i 7.4 publication
The following revisions or additions were made to the Db2®
Mirror topic after the first IBM i 7.4 publication:
- November 2023 update
- Health Center improvements: Monitoring Db2 Mirror resources
- Jobs preventing IASP vary off: Jobs preventing IASP vary off
- Performance improvements:
- Active replication of some object types
- Resynchronization
- New Db2 Mirror services
- Updated Db2 Mirror services
- May 2023 update
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- See the Memorandum To Users (MTU) for details about changes to command line tool db2mtool. Password parameters removed from db2mtool command
- Health Center improvements
- Enable or disable automatic takeover for unplanned outages
- Db2 Mirror services usability improvements
- Performance improvements
- Active replication of some object types
- Resynchronization
- See the Db2 Mirror Performance FAQs for more specific details about Db2 Mirror performance. IBM Db2 Mirror for i: Performance Considerations
- Updated planning considerations for relational database directory entries. Relational database directory entries
- December 2022 update
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- New RDMA adapter: Network adapters
- Submitted Job Tracker: Managing the Submitted Job Tracker
- IFS IASP geographic mirroring support
- Jobs preventing resume
- Jobs preventing resume
- MIRROR_SUSPENDING_JOBS table function
- CHANGE_MIRROR and RECLONE_REPLICATED_OBJECTS procedures have a new optional parameter for resume type
- Db2 Mirror services updates
- CHECK_MIRROR_VERSION scalar function is enhanced to include a new optional parameter for entry source.
- MIRROR_DISPLAY_JOURNAL table function is enhanced with improved formatting of some of the content shown in the ACTION and DETAIL columns, to better align with the Db2 Mirror audit journal entry services.
- May 2022 update
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- Updated Db2 Mirror security guidelines and considerations
- See the Memorandum To Users (MTU) for details about security related changes for Db2 Mirror. Memo to users: Db2 Mirror (5770-DBM)
- Versioning support
- Exit point program considerations: Exit point program considerations
- Updated software requirements: Software requirements
- Updated storage requirements: IBM storage systems requirements
- December 2021 update
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- ObjectConnect for Db2 Mirror: ObjectConnect for Db2 Mirror
- RoCE v2 and Encrypted RoCE v2
- April 2021 update
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- See the Memorandum To Users (MTU) for more details about the Db2 Mirror enhancements to object replication. Memo to users: Db2 Mirror (5770-DBM)
- Replication support for user index (*USRIDX) and user space (*USRSPC) objects: User indexes and User spaces
- Replication support for entries in a data queue (*DTAQ) object: Data queues
- Support for product level object replication controls: Object replication controls
- Performance improvements have been introduced. See the Db2 Mirror Performance FAQs for more specific details about Db2 Mirror performance. https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/QYGKQJMK
- October 2020 update
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- Support for software reclone
- New takeover IP address group option for automatic switchback.
- April 2020 update
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- New takeover IP address groups
- New support for configuring Db2 Mirror on systems using internal storage
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To find other information about what's new or changed this release, see the Memo to users.
