Replication and other i2 applications

Ensure that you understand the impact that replication has on other i2 Applications.

Replication has no effect on how you use these i2 products with iBase:
  • i2® Analyst's Notebook®
  • i2® iBase Geographic Information System Interfaces
  • Extended Access Control

For Analyst's Notebook, you can use the File Manager on the iBase Replication menu to replicate Analyst's Notebook charts and templates.

iBase GIS Interfaces

Using iBase GIS Interfaces to provide an interface in iBase to a mapping application has no effect on how you set up iBase database replication. Each site that uses a mapping application must install iBase GIS Interfaces and set up its own mapping configurations. Mapping configurations are not replicated.

If you choose to hold geocoding data in the iBase records, then all sites see this data, even if they do not use any mapping applications.

iBase Scheduler

It is only necessary to install iBase Scheduler and configure the Scheduler service to run at one of the sites. This can be any one of the publisher or subscriber sites.

Note: The Scheduler service should only run while replication is configured because records imported after replication is disabled by the SQL Server administrator are not replicated to other sites even when replication is reconfigured. You might also want to consider disabling the service if there is an interruption to the communications link. See Handling a Network Communications Failure for details.
Note: Disabling the Scheduler service, rather than stopping it, prevents the service from restarting if the server is rebooted.

Semantic types

The management of semantic types is simplified in a replicated database. You no longer need to distribute copies of the semantic type library from a central database using .mtc files. Semantic types and how they are assigned are distributed as part of the database schema.

For background information on semantic types in iBase, see the iBase Designer help.