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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...
14 days ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Please certify the product IBM Data Replication IMS for z/OS Remote Source to run on zCX and/or Red Hat Openshift

We’ve achieved excellent results with the Db2 for Remote Source product, as it has significantly reduced CPU usage on the mainframe—an area where traditional data replication has historically been one of the top resource consumers. With the introd...
2 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Databand Alerts - Pause pipeline alerts on all or selective alerts during scheduled maintenance windows or ad-hoc.

Being able to pause "pipelines" during know scheduled maintenance windows or ad-hoc pauses when known testing is going on. The options should be able to pause ALL alerts on a pipeline or certain alerts. As in pick and chose by type like "Critical"...
9 months ago in Databand / Not functional 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'...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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 year ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Under review

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

SCC and SOD Compliance

The Bank of America Epic for this requirement is summarized here: https://bigblue.aha.io/features/CP4DCFI-242 BofA compliance details are found here: https://tinyurl.com/BofA-SCC-SOD
about 2 years ago in Databand / Not functional 0 Under review

Update documentation to be clear which datasources are supported to generate datasets in databand

Up to date documentation is always useful to the developers. It reduces time and effort spent trying to figure out how the product works. Currently databand documentation does not specify which datasources are supported yet, in terms of whether it...
about 2 years ago in Databand / Not functional 0

DB2 z/OS Cloning Tool: Provide support to clone applications (tablespace cloning) using System Level Backup as input. RFE 123129

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123129 For database recovery and faster data backup's , we implement the system level backup utility. The request is, to use this files as input files for ta...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration