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Replication: IMS / VSAM

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Metrics for this product shoul be provided as regular SMF collection for historical and monitor reasons

While metrics are provided using CDA Tool, it requires the user to activate the data collection and thre is no mechanism for the product to provide a more historial data gathering. Also thre is no way to automatically see trends other than manual ...
over 2 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 2 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

Diff function for produce log records after VSAM files are REPROed

Many customers are using IDCAM REPRO to update/replace the whole VSAM file during a nightly batch job. The repro operation does not create records in the logstream. As a result, user has to perform REFRESH to resynchronize the target database. Som...
about 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 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

Restart Latency event within IIDR EIF

Add event to filter and trigger on Restart Latency.
over 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Delivered

NMI enhancement

add Restart Latency value to the NMI data captured in the target server.
over 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Delivered

Enhance DELETE control statement to allow "older than xx" option.

The idea is to allow another option on the delete statement. Currently it accepts Start time and End time. I would like to see a 3rd option of "older than xx", where xx could be 10 days or whatever value is specified. This would allow a scheduled ...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 2 Delivered

Log updates replicated by CFC1 writer tasks to the target file's logreplicate logstream

If an application owner asks if you can verify when or if a specific update was replicated to the target site, there isn't any diagnostic information available to confirm if/when the update was replicated, since the updates applied via a CFC1 writ...
over 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 1 Delivered

Exit with non-zero return code or abend after a subroutine or other abend

IMS CDC terminates with a zero return code after one of its IMS subroutines abends -- 'playing havoc' with customer replication processes and schedules. IBM Cases TS002591910 and TS002591963 detail the troubling, non-mainframe behavior of IMS ...
over 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 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