In this section, we cover how to create, alter, and drop a Q subscription.
We will show examples using the Replication Center and ASNCLP commands.
To create a Q subscription using the Replication Center, right-click on the Q Subscriptions folder and click on Create:
This takes us through a series of 10 screens to create the Q subscription. Here's Screen 1, Subscriptions:
Screen 2, Replication: This is where we decide what type of replication we want to perform (that is, unidirectional, bidirectional, and so on). The GUI is clever, it will only present us with "valid" options—all other options being grayed out. What is meant by a "valid" option? Well, if we have the Q capture control tables defined on one server and the Q Apply control tables defined on a second server then the only type of replication that can be set up between the servers is unidirectional, and the Replication Center will thus only let us select unidirectional as the replication...