CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Preface

  1      New and Changed Features
    1.1 Ability to Alter Transfer and Schedule Definitions
    1.2 Ability to Grant and Revoke Transfer Privileges
    1.3 Ability to Create an Archive Database
    1.4 Ability to Set Logical Name Translation in Transfer Definitions
    1.5 Ability to Recover From Some Transfer Failures Quicker
    1.6 Performance Enhancements in Transfer Execution
    1.7 New Data Sources and Targets

  2      Problems Corrected
    2.1 Transfer Monitor Crashed After Virtual Memory Exhausted

  3      Known Problems and Restrictions
    3.1 Restrictions on Data Distributor Version 6.0 Software
      3.1.1      Restriction on CREATE TRANSFER Syntax
      3.1.2      Behavior of the ALTER SCHEDULE Statement
      3.1.3      Unexpected Behavior of the REVOKE Statement
    3.2 DEC DB Integrator Usage Notes
    3.3 Restrictions for Extraction, Extraction Rollup, and Replication Transfers
      3.3.1      Do Not Use GRANT, REVOKE or ALTER Within a Transaction
      3.3.2      External Functions Not Supported
      3.3.3      Transfer Monitor Bugchecks with %DDAL-E-PRIV_READ_ERROR Error Message
      3.3.4      Transfer Schedule Defined for Time Before Transfer Execution
      3.3.5      Transfer Completion Status After a Transfer Is Stopped
      3.3.6      Drop Replication Transfer Can Cause All of Data Distributor to Hang
      3.3.7      Restrictions on the CHECKPOINT clause
        3.3.7.1      Restrictions on the EVERY n MINUTES Subclause
    3.4 Restrictions for Extraction Transfers Only
      3.4.1      Views Containing COMPUTED BY Columns Cannot Become Tables
    3.5 Restrictions for Extraction Rollup Transfers Only
      3.5.1      Column Names for Like Tables Must Be Identical
      3.5.2      SQL Privileges Can Restrict Access to Source Tables
    3.6 Restrictions for Replication Transfers Only
      3.6.1      Restriction on Fields Named in a DEC Rdb RDO RSE
      3.6.2      Restriction on Columns Named in an SQL Select Expression
      3.6.3      Restriction on Wildcards in Select Expressions
      3.6.4      Restriction on COMPUTED BY Columns in Select Expressions
      3.6.5      Deleting Transfer Definitions
      3.6.6      RMU/COPY_DATABASE Propagates Data Distributor Tables
    3.7 Restrictions for Transferring Into an Existing Database
      3.7.1      Avoiding Lock Conflicts in Transfers to Existing Databases
    3.8 VAXcluster and VMScluster Restrictions
      3.8.1      Load Balancing in a VAXcluster or VMScluster
      3.8.2      Losing a Cluster Node Can Cause Later Transfer Failure

  4      Documentation Omissions
    4.1 Usage Notes on the RECOVER WITHIN n MINUTES Subclause
    4.2 Correction to Index Names