What's new for IBM i 7.5
The following information was added or updated in this release of the information.
IBM Db2 Mirror for i 7.5 Enhancements
IBM® Db2® Mirror for i 7.5 includes the following updates and enhancements:
- June 2024 update
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- New RDMA adapters for Power10: Network adapters
- Health Center monitors for DASD attention indicator events against specific IASPs allowing SYSBAS to resume replication: Monitoring Db2 Mirror resources
- Performance improvements:
- Caching replication status results for the Replication Criteria List: Managing the Replication Criteria List
- Resynchronization
- Updated Db2 Mirror services
- Compare the RESTRICT ON DROP attribute for SQL functions, procedures, and tables: MIRROR_COMPARE_LIBRARY procedure, MIRROR_COMPARE_NODE procedure, and MIRROR_COMPARE_OBJECT table function
- 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
- 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 (7.5 GA)
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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)
- Read-only environment
- Mixed release Db2 Mirror environment
- Updated software requirements: Software requirements
- Updated storage requirements: IBM storage systems requirements
- Software Reclone enhancements: Software reclone
- Enable or disable automatic takeover for unplanned outages:
IBM Db2 Mirror for i 7.4 Enhancements
The following enhancements were new after the initial release of IBM Db2 Mirror for i 7.4:
- Versioning support
- RoCE v2 and Encrypted RoCE v2
- Configuring Db2 Mirror on systems using internal storage
- ObjectConnect for Db2 Mirror: ObjectConnect
- Replication of user index (*USRIDX) and user space (*USRSPC) objects: User indexes and User spaces
- Replication of entries in a data queue (*DTAQ) object: Data queues
- Product level object replication controls: Object replication controls
- Software reclone
- Takeover IP address groups
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