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Replication: IMS / VSAM

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Classic CDC DFSPPUE0 should show connection info

Currently the DFSPPUE0 exit will only display connection info on a successful connection--but not if there is an error. It should display the connection info it is using ESPECIALLY if there is an error. It would be especially useful if it would al...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

Infosphere Classic CDC - Notification when Classic CDC stops reading IMS logs

As a result of PMR 73348,101,616 and a subsequent meeting held between the client and the CDC development team, we were told that the CDC tool did not identify well when the log reading process was stopped due to an old SSID record in the RECON. T...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Delivered

Add MFA support to Infosphere CDA tool

Please add support for MFA /passphrase to the Infosphere Classic Data Architect V11.3
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

Provide attributes in conflict for message CECD1029E

Message CECD1029E only tells you that the attributes for the VSAM data set are different on the source and target servers. It doesn't tell you WHICH attribute it finds to be mis-matched. It would be more helpful in troubleshooting issues to know w...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 1 Delivered

CDA generate DDL to use binary data types

In customer's IMS application, PL / I Bit items are often used. In current CCDC, Bit items can be replicated as forbit data, but DDL sentence generation by CDA is not supported and it is skipped. Therefore, it is necessary to define a column manua...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Delivered

IIDR heartbeat signal between Capture server and Apply server

If target server side system which Apply server works goes down by any errors, source server side system which Capture server works is not aware of a failure of another side.
almost 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Delivered

IMS Rep: detect and handle multiple open PRILOGs

Please detect if there are multiple open PRILOGs for a given subsystem and look at the timestamps for them. Give me the option to ignore all but the most recent open PRILOG for that subsystem as opposed to the current behavior of using the first P...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

Infosphere Classic CDC - needs to handle local time

Previous to V9.5 the time-stamp in the message represented when the Correlation Service processed the change and not the time when the application made the change. This condition of using the Classic server Correlation Service (CS) time and not th...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

Support Record Lengths over 32K

A customer has a very long VSAM record more than 32K in length and it also contains multiple redefines. Classic CDC can handle 32K but failed to handle record size over 32K
over 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

Ability to set target files to OPE ENA in apply CICS region

Currently replication OPEns and then CLO ENAs the target files in the apply CICS region as part of the initial checks when replication is started. We need the CFC3 transaction to OPE ENA the target files to ensure that the status of the files are ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Delivered