Administrative interfaces for replication and publishing

Replication and publishing provide three administrative interfaces for setting up, operating, and monitoring the health of your environment.

You can use the following interfaces to administer replication and publishing:

Replication Center

The Replication Center is a graphical user interface that you can use to define, operate, and monitor your replication and publishing environments. It comes with the DB2® Administration Client and runs on Linux and Windows systems. The Replication Center provides a single interface for administering your replication environments on different platforms across multiple systems. Among its features:

• Launchpads that show you step by step how to configure basic replication and publishing environments.
• Wizards that help you set up simple to highly customized replication and publishing configurations.
• Profiles that you can customize that let you create replication objects with schemas, names, and other attributes that conform to your own conventions and storage requirements.

ASNCLP command-line program

The ASNCLP program generates SQL scripts for defining and changing replication and publishing environments. The program runs on Linux, UNIX, Windows, z/OS®, and UNIX System Services (USS) for z/OS. The ASNCLP program does not run natively on System i®.

You can use the ASNCLP to administer SQL Replication, Q Replication, Classic replication, Event Publishing, and the Replication Alert Monitor. You can build ASNCLP input files and run them to generate SQL scripts, or you can run ASNCLP commands interactively from an operating system prompt. You can also run the ASNCLP program in execute-immediately mode, which is useful for operational commands such as START QSUB, STOP QSUB, or LIST.

Q Replication Dashboard

The Q Dashboard is a Web-based, graphical user interface that helps you monitor and manage the health of replication and Event Publishing.

The dashboard provides an overall summary of replication and publishing configurations in a convenient tabular format with high-level status indicators. You can drill down for more detailed information on queues and queue depth, subscriptions, latency, and exceptions, and generate detailed reports to help track performance or diagnose problems. You can also view up to 24 moving graphs for near-real-time performance information.

You can change program parameters, start, stop, and reinitialize subscriptions, and start and stop queues. The dashboard also provides a convenient way to view alerts from the Replication Alert Monitor program.