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Replication: IMS / VSAM

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Proper messaging is needed for refresh or mirror not working

When a new file is created and Augmented for replication, and a refresh or mirroring is attempted , it does not work and below message is obtained.072-053,CRTSCVS,CRTSCVS,SYS00021,,,FBSIT.DBA.V2D.CHAR 817 IEC161I FBSIT.DBA.V2D.CHARI.DATA,SYS1.VSMS...
over 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Microseconds not getting populated for target DB2 timestamp column

"CDC built-in functions cannot retain microseconds for TIMESTAMP target data type. I have a 2 vsam fields, vsam CHAR(10) field AS 2018/08/13 (yyyy/mm/dd) and vsam CHAR(15) FIELD AS 16:19:45.094690 (hh.mm.ss.xxxxxx). I am trying to map combing both...
over 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Support IIDR reads from Secondary Volumes of Global Mirror

Support IIDR Capture reading from secondary volumes of Global Mirror.The customer uses IMS FP function for core banking systems. The customer is planning IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS(IIDR) as the next DR solution instead of IMS RSR. 　As...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

CDC ENDONERROR Subsription Properties Advanced Settings

IBM Infosphere Data Replication allows ENDONERROR behavior to be controlled at the Subscription Level. Classic Change Data Capture does not. We would like to see this capability extended to Classic Change Data Capture.
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

CECBTCCP should allow creating, etc., subscriptions

PGM=CECBTCCP should support not just starting and stopping subscriptions, but also support exporting and importing existing definitions, defining, modifying and deleting subscriptions and their mappings.
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Classic CDC to Support column-level CodePage selection

I work at a financial institution where we process mainframe information in EBCDIC CodePage 037, 838, 930 and 937.Currently we plan to work around a CodePage limitation by generating four separate subscriptions; one for each EBCDIC CodePage we wan...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Functions to initialize replication _DURING_UPDATING_ source DB are needed for IMS replication

Functions to initialize replication _DURING_UPDATING_ source DB are needed for IMS replication (IIDR for IMS) in case of failing to continue replication, especially due to inconsistency between source and target DBs. (just like "FULLREFRESH" of II...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

CDA Insufficient Access Authority when logging on

Ref TS003663019 - When using CDA there is no option to log-in with read-only access so the assumption is that any CDA user could add, delete, or update a subscription. This is inapproriate for a Production Environment hence why we are experiencing...
over 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere Classic CDC - needs to handle IMS exits better

Currently, the Infosphere Classic CDC comes with 2 IMS exits:DFSFLGX0DFSPPUE0These datasets need to be in the IMS Steplib concatenation to be accessed, and are using the default names. Now that IMS V13 and IMS V14 can specify any module name for a...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Please increase the timeout value on the SLDS contention situation.

Customers would like to have larger timeout value on the SLDS contention situation. This is because,- SLDS contention situation could happen in production. - It is not a problem or operation mistake. - In that situation, customer does not like to ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

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