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HA on a shoestring PartII
Mar 4th
I finally found the links for the programs for the programs IBM used in the Lab sessions for HA on a Shoestring. Here they are for those of you who are interested. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systems_i_software_db2_chgnsleep.cl.txt http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systems_i_software_db2_haapply.cl.txt http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systems_i_software_db2_hrtbeat.cl.txt http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systems_i_software_db2_hrtmonitor.c.txt http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systems_i_software_db2_hrtstatus.c.txt Enjoy… Chris…
IBM’s HA on a shoestring Presentation
Mar 3rd
We seem to be getting many requests for information on our RAP and the link to the IBM HA on a Shoestring presentation which has made the rounds at Common a number of times. We produced a white paper many years ago which was the starting point for the technology, it only showed how we
Latest Version of JobQGenie
Mar 1st
We have taken the new collection engine which we developed for RAP and built it into the latest version of JobQGenie. The new collection engine was needed due to the older technology becoming too cumbersome to manage, every time we needed to make a slight change to the process we had to make changes to
New release of Crc Builder in progress, should be faster!
Dec 17th
When we started to build the Crc Builder we used technology we had built into the RAP Auditing product as the base. While the Auditing functions work, we felt the speed needed to be improved so we set about looking for better ways to manage the process. A forum post from Chris Edmonds got us
Object replication working despite Audit Journal feature
Oct 30th
OK so we now have fully automated Object replication working and driven by the audit journal in the same manner as the other HA products. Hopefully we will see a lot more traction in the market for the product once we start shipping this feature? Having said that the current economic climate is tending to
Automated Replication for Objects
Oct 2nd
Been a long time since the last post, that’s because we have been busy developing a journal scraper and object replicator for RAP. The principle was to initially store the updates and apply in sequence with the apply of the journal receiver on the target, but that is going to have to wait as the
PTF01 now available for download RAP Version 3.1
Sep 11th
We have packaged up the changes and fixes into PTF01 for RAP Version 3.1 which is now available for download from our website. There are a number of new features plus a couple of minor fixes. Details can be found on our website support pages. Chris…
See how RAP is installed and configured live, well almost!
Sep 9th
As I previously posted we have started to create screencasts (video capture of the PC screen plus audio) of how we downloaded, installed and configured RAP. The final screencast Configure_RAP also shows how the product quickly updates the target system once a journal change is detected. We feel the screencasts will show just how easy
Is HA really that hard to Manage?
Sep 9th
I was reading the daily industry rags we get by email and noticed a story about a new offering from a company to manage your HA environment for you. If you got the email you will know which one I am talking about. Anyhow this got me thinking about some of the content, here is
Howto screencasts now available
Sep 7th
In our attempt to help customers set up and manage a replication environment and install and configure the RAP product, we have created a number of screencasts showing how to carry out a number of functions. Our hope is that eventually anyone will be able to install, configure and manage RAP without the need for

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