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Reorg Tablespace template for version mismtach with CDC

In a test environment, it's quite common to observe a higher volume of modifications, which naturally leads to a larger data version compared to the source environment. Given this context, planning a reorganization to address such discrepancies—es...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

For IBM Change Data Capture create documentation for the SYSCAC catalog objects

This is would be very for those installing and supporting IBM Classic Change Data Capture For IMS. At this time, the Classic catalog (including SYSCAC tables) is not documented in the same way as the Db2 SYSIBM catalog. Documenting this informatio...

CHCCLP - Return Code Handling in Mainframe and LUW platform

Provide return codes for individual CHCCLP instructions and add features to CHCCLP script to evaluate return code (e.g., if...then...else...) before proceeding with subsequent instructions. Additionally, include an option to set return codes back ...
5 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client (Fukuoka Financial Group) is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Cl...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Client’s Dprop application p...
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

CCDC replication should be restarted when an unexpected error occurs.

We are suffering with an issue where CCDC replication stops for unknown reasons. It has been almost two years since we opened the case TS014238021, but we still don't know the cause. An APAR PH65595 has been opened for this issue, but no PTF has b...
7 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Under review

CDC capture enhancement for "catch up" mode.

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. In order to bette...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Documentation of raw data format in Classic CDC MQ publishing.

This is not functional requirement, but documentation requirement. it seems that Classic CDC MQ publishing have a capability to publish data format by using PUBBINASIS=TRUE. I've found this function in developerWorks. https://developer.ibm.com/ans...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement of TPCIP task when using DDF

When running source and target jobs on different LPARs, we need to use a TCPIP job even when we choose DDF as the connection type. We need that Cloning Tool uses DDF to run queries and commands on objects of the target datasharing without the obli...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use DB2 Storclas for extents during TS Cloning

I would like an option where the CloningTool uses the StorClas from the DB2 catalog for newly created datasets (e.g. extents).Currently only the following options are supported: no specification means the SMS StrorClass is adopted from the origina...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration