What's new for IBM i 7.6
IBM® Db2® Mirror for i includes the following updates and enhancements in the initial release of IBM i 7.6.
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- New process to manually reclone a single replicated object and its replicated dependent objects from one Db2 Mirror node to another: Reclone a single replicated object
- Significantly updated the Db2 Mirror GUI to give a clean, modern look consistent with other GUI's that are part of the IBM i family.
- Support a mixed release Db2 Mirror environment where the IBM i operating system level on one node is either IBM i 7.4 or IBM i 7.5 and the other node is IBM i 7.6: Mixed release Db2 Mirror environment, Application behavior when running in a mixed release environment, and Best practices for system management
- Updated software requirements: Software requirements
- Performance improvements:
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- Resynchronization of delete, move and rename operations for replication-eligible objects
- New services:
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- RECLONE_OBJECT procedure: RECLONE_OBJECT procedure
- Updated services:
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- AUDIT_JOURNAL_M8 and AUDIT_JOURNAL_M9 table functions have new result columns to reflect additional auditing added in IBM i 7.6: SYSTOOLS.AUDIT_JOURNAL_M8 table function and SYSTOOLS.AUDIT_JOURNAL_M9 table function
- Authorization changed for the following services:
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- ADD_MIRROR_TAKEOVER_ADDRESS procedure: ADD_MIRROR_TAKEOVER_ADDRESS procedure
- CHANGE_MIRROR_TAKEOVER_GROUP procedure: CHANGE_MIRROR_TAKEOVER_GROUP procedure
- CREATE_MIRROR_TAKEOVER_GROUP procedure: CREATE_MIRROR_TAKEOVER_GROUP procedure
- DELETE_MIRROR_TAKEOVER_GROUP procedure: DELETE_MIRROR_TAKEOVER_GROUP procedure
- MIRROR_CLUSTER_INFO view: MIRROR_CLUSTER_INFO view
- MIRROR_INFO view: MIRROR_INFO view
- MIRROR_OBJECTCONNECT_INFO view: MIRROR_OBJECTCONNECT_INFO view
- MIRROR_TAKEOVER_INFO view: MIRROR_TAKEOVER_INFO view
- NRG_INFO view: NRG_INFO view
- NRG_LINK_INFO view: NRG_LINK_INFO view
- SET_MIRROR_CLUSTER procedure: SET_MIRROR_CLUSTER procedure
- SETUP_MIRROR procedure: SETUP_MIRROR procedure
- RDMA_CONNECTION_INFO view: RDMA_CONNECTION_INFO view
- RDMA_LINK_INFO view: RDMA_LINK_INFO view
- REMOVE_MIRROR_TAKEOVER_ADDRESS procedure: REMOVE_MIRROR_TAKEOVER_ADDRESS procedure
- SWAP_MIRROR_TAKEOVER_GROUP procedure: SWAP_MIRROR_TAKEOVER_GROUP procedure
What’s new since the first IBM i 7.5 publication
The following revisions or additions have been made to the IBM
Db2 Mirror for i documentation since the first 7.5 publication:
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- A new product offering named IBM i Migrate While Active builds upon the continuous availability technology of IBM Db2 Mirror for i. Migrate While Active, 5770DBM – Option 2, is a separately licensed program option and it is used independently from 5770DBM – Option 1 Db2 Mirror Enablement. For additional information, see IBM i Migrate While Active
- Health Center monitoring of Db2 Mirror resources: Monitoring Db2 Mirror resources
- IFS IASP geographic mirroring support: IFS IASP considerations, Adding IFS IASPs to Db2 Mirror, Managing IFS IASPs
- Jobs preventing resume or IASP vary off: Jobs preventing resume
- New RDMA adapters: Network adapters
- Submitted Job Tracker in a Db2 Mirror environment: Managing the Submitted Job Tracker
- Performance improvements:
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- Active replication of some object types
- Caching replication status results for the Replication Criteria List: Managing the Replication Criteria List
- Resynchronization
- New services:
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- COMPARE_MIRROR_VERSION scalar function compares two version identifiers: COMPARE_MIRROR_VERSION scalar function
- Health Center services: CHANGE_MIRROR_HEALTH_MONITOR procedure and MIRROR_HEALTH_MONITOR_INFO view
- MIRROR_SUSPENDING_JOBS table function returns information about jobs preventing resume: MIRROR_SUSPENDING_JOBS table function
- Updated services:
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- CHANGE_MIRROR procedure added new parameters for auto takeover, RDMA protocols over TCP/IP, resume type, and I/O tracked change threshold and minimum number of rows values to trigger resynchronization too use save/restore processing for files: CHANGE_MIRROR
- CHECK_MIRROR_VERSION scalar function added a new optional parameter for the entry source of a version identifier: CHECK_MIRROR_VERSION scalar function
- Mirror Compare services compares the RESTRICT ON DROP attribute, objects that are not replication eligible, and optional object type filtering parameter : MIRROR_COMPARE_LIBRARY procedure, MIRROR_COMPARE_NODE procedure, and MIRROR_COMPARE_OBJECT table function
- MIRROR_DISPLAY_JOURNAL table function added new parameters to accept starting and ending timestamps to filter results: MIRROR_DISPLAY_JOURNAL table function
- MIRROR_FLIGHT_RECORDER_INFO view returns information about compare, Health Center, Migration Manager, program management, and system SQL operations logging levels: MIRROR_FLIGHT_RECORDER_INFO view
- MIRROR_INFO view returns information about type of environment for Db2 Mirror, RDMA protocols over TCP/IP, and I/O tracked change threshold and minimum number of rows values to trigger resynchronization too use save/restore processing for files: MIRROR_INFO view
- RECLONE_REPLICATED_OBJECTS procedure added a new parameter for resume type: RECLONE_REPLICATED_OBJECTS
- SET_MIRROR_FLIGHT_RECORDER_INFO procedure added new parameters for compare, Health Center, Migration Manager, program management, and system SQL operations logging levels: SET_MIRROR_FLIGHT_RECORDER_INFO procedure
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