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Data Replication for IMS for z/OS

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Process to enable TLS 1.3 on DataStage versions

Need process to enable/upgrade TLS 1.3 for DataStage 11.7.1.X versions. This will help to enable new security features and meet the audit. Product :InfoSphere Information Server: Data Integration (DataStage)

High Availability feature using the InfoSphere CDC for z/OS failover for IMS

We are a 24x7 IMSPlex site including workload balancing across lpars. We have introduced CDC for IMS, replicating data from critical 24x7 business applications. Presently we do not take any outage for these business applications. When making c...
about 1 month ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Submitted

Suppress DD-level accounting information in the SMF type 30 EXCP section for individual DDs.

We found that E-Private SP230 Key0 storage growth was occurred in IIDR Classc Capture service. It was due to SMF type 30 EXCP information at DD name dynamic allocation. Our case was 100 thousand DD Dynamic allocation for IMS OLDS open. . Then, I'...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

zLinux Support for IIDR IMS Remote

Global Payments requests to have an S390 ZLinux Build for IIDR IMS. Currently DB2z has zLinux support, but Global Payments also has IMS and VSAM, and would like to include both IMS and VSAM support. This includes the windows management console to ...
6 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Add additional retry logic when there is a tape volume that is unavailable

Add additional retry logic to better recover from an I/O error while reading a block from an IMS log when there is a tape volume that is unavailable during change stream connect processing. (1)SalesForce Case TS002782852 - DRISRP - Internal E...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

SSIDEXCLUDELIST - Generic namesc

It would be very helpful to have the possibility to code some generic names in the Classic Change Data Capture for IMS z/OS in the parameter field SSIDEXCLUDELIST. In some cases, customers need to code several hundred or thousands of names which o...
about 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow IMS Replication Subscription to Retry a Failed UOR When Bookmark DB is Unavailable

A persistent issue we are running into in our test environments is that a /DBR DB ALL command is being issued a couple of hours prior to the daily recycling of the environment. A /STA DB command is issued for the bookmark database, but the subscri...
over 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration