If you are using Data Studio Administration Console (DSAC) to monitor a Q Replication environment, there are a few important things you should know.
- DSAC v1.2 Fixpack 1 is available for *free* download. You can access both the base code and the Fixpack at the Blogroll link in the lower right hand corner of this page under “Q Replication Tools”. There are a couple of installation “gotchas” that you need to know that I covered in and earlier post.
- What is old is new again. The original Q Replication Dashboard was a Java-based heavy client. That was replaced by the current DSAC implementation: browser-based, thin-client with a lite webserver imbedded. Q Replication monitoring is now moving away from the “Data Studio” umbrella and will be called Q Replication Dashboard again. My guess is that the new implementation will retain a lot of the “look and feel” of DSAC, so there’s no risk in starting to use DSAC today for Q Replication monitoring. Watch the blog for details as they become available.
- In a follow-up to Kim’s What’s in a Name post from a while back, IBMer Anjul Bhambhri made an off-hand remark at the June meeting of the Baltimore/Washington DB2 Users Group which identified an important IBM product naming convention distinction. Products named “Data Studio” are available for *free*; these are typically tools which provide basic functionality (e.g. DSAC). Products named “Optim” are for-fee products offering more integration and/or robust functionality. “Optim” is a name that derives from IBM’s acquisition of Princeton Softech. Most folks associated “Optim” with data archiving. Now “Optim” will be the brandlet that covers IBM cross-database tooling. Clear? I hope so. At least until the next change.
If you’re not using DSAC for Q Replication real-time monitoring, how come?
Can data studio be used to configure the databases for the q replication dashboard? I see in the documentation that you can access the dashboard using data studio. I have two regions that uses the same db alias and the dashboard will not allow me to configure them both and I heard that I might be able to do it using data studio