Db2 for IBM i agent changelog

Relaxed checks for FOR BIT DATA data types;

GSSD-340: Added support for xyz FOR BIT DATA data type in IBM i Series;

Fixed merge statement generation;

Fixed an issue preventing Packed decimal data types to be correctly saved in an AS400 target table;

GSSD-301: Added clearer error handling when a File is currently unaccessible due to a lock;

GSSD-308: Fixed backwards compatibility issue with 7.3 TR11 / 7.4 TR5;

GSSD-290: Fixed a rare condition that could cause Gluesync to miss certain changes from being replicated.

Fixed AS400 7.3 backward compatibility issue;

Added support for short data type such as SMALL INT (other DBs will follow in the next releases);

Fixed journal reading of certain date and time format;

Added support for recursion protection;

Fixed a journal deserialization issue that could affect users having tables with custom date and time format;

Added support for automatic disambiguation when multiple tables have the same name.

Added additional logs to trace an issue affecting journal deserialization;

GSSD-285: Added management of tables under journal with same name but located in different libraries;

GSSD-283: fixed an issue that was displaying an error about "duplicate keys" entries within the Gluesync’s staging area;

Minor fixes and improvements.

Enhanced the controls when retriveing journal library name from a FILE, this prevents a wrong library name to be selected when the table is not journaled;

It now handles journal receveivers that do not share contiguous sequence number;

Added support for tables journaled with AFTER image.

Fixed numeric data types mapping;

Added control to journaling mode;

Journal reading performance significantly improved with up to 40x faster loads on very crowded databases;

Fixed concurrent operation on Journal Reader that cause a fake error in notifications hub;

GSSD-186: Fixed schema creation for IBM i DB2 database setting automatic deletion of journal receivers to true;

GSSD-184: Fixed merge statements character set issues when targeting an IBM i DB2 database;

GSSD-176: Fixed merge statements issues when targeting an IBM i DB2 database;

GSSD-167: Fix IBM i series journal entry data auto casting for IBM i series 7.3 or lower;