Fall 2020: Shadowbase Development News
Jonathan Ziegler,
Sr. Manager, Product Development
Latest Shadowbase Release Highlights
Version 6.600 of HPE Shadowbase for Other Servers, and version 6.610 of HPE Shadowbase for NonStop Servers are now generally available. The main features of each are highlighted below. For more detailed information on this release, please see our Shadowbase Product Releases (SPRs).
Version 6.600 for Other Servers features include:
- Support for SAP Hana as a target
- Improved replication into SAP ASE and Db2® target databases (utilizing the Shadowbase software statement caching ODBC engine)
- Enhanced Db2 source replication (including z/OS environments) with new configuration options supporting MQCONNX security features
- New SBFILE command options for displaying transaction information stored in a Shadowbase database of change (DOC)
- Improved Shadowbase log source replication for Oracle (e.g., longer transactions spanning online and archived REDO logs)
- Enhanced reload command for Shadowbase source replication for SQL server to allow DLL reloads while the database remains online
- Improved Shadowbase DOC blocking algorithm and more efficient I/O processing
- Additional enhancements and bug fixes
In the last newsletter, I announced that version 6.600 for HPE NonStop Servers was available. In case you missed it, it contains the following key items:
- Improved non-audited NonStop data replication capability
- Enhanced HPE Shadowbase Compare/Repair solution
- SQL/MP SQLCI DDL Command Replication utility
- Features that simplify migration to HPE Shadowbase software
Version 6.610 for HPE NonStop is currently entering QA, and includes support for:
- Collector-level filtering of SQL/MP and SQL/MX index events (performance improvement)
- Enscribe Compare support for comparisons between systems over TCP/IP
- Improved performance for the Shadowbase configuration generation macros
Development is well under way on Version 6.700 for both HPE Shadowbase for NonStop Servers and HPE Shadowbase for Other Servers:
- HPE Shadowbase Zero Data Loss (ZDL) for NonStop just completed a round of performance testing at the ATC, with very positive results (included in the development/release effort)
- Leverage new functionality to remove the need for the Shadowbase metronome process, and instead repurpose it as an optional tool for tuning in specific scenarios
- Improvements for simplified configuration, reduced overhead, and an overall reduction in application latency
- Support for additional platform and database combinations (e.g., support for Postgres as a replication target)
- Further enhancements to Shadowbase log source replication for Oracle
- Performance and functionality improvements to our Shadowbase Compare for Enscribe databases
- SBCREATP, a new utility to map SQL/MP table schemas into target database formats (e.g., Oracle and SQL Server)
Our future development plans include:
- Further enhancements and functionality for HPE Shadowbase ZDL for NonStop, including bi-directional replication and a new Maximum Reliability Mode (MRM) to complement the current Maximum Availability Mode (MAM)
- Sophisticated DDL replication for all of the NonStop databases we support
- Additional source databases to our Shadowbase data transformation mapping utility (SBMAP)
Catch our Developer Chat – HPE NonStop Shadowbase Solutions on November 18 at 10:45am PST at the 2020 virtual NonStop Technical Boot Camp!
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