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Maintain/display target/apply replication I/O statistics for each Resource Map of a Subscription

It is necessary at times to confirm how many adds/updates/deletes have been applied/replicated to a target Resource Map "RM" of a Subscription. The apply process should maintain these replicated I/O statistics on the apply side at the RM level as ...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Still include the Business Entity that is used for filtering options on the object grid

For example you have a business entity named BE1. BE1 has child business entity namely CBE1, CBE2, CBE3. When you use BE1 as Filter Option for the BE grid, you can only see CBE1,2 and 3. There should be an option for the BE1 to be included in the ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

Additional CDC monitoring feature

hi, As you know Classic CDC for IMS providing basic support. Nowadays it's important to monitor subscriptions' latencies, status or states for IMS side. It is posibble to monitor cdc for DB2 via API but we need same development for IMS. Before thi...
about 4 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 2 Future consideration

Customer needs a new function that can easily compare source and target.

My customer is using IIDR for IMS for z/OS.(all DEDB)They need a new function that can easily compare source DB and target DB.As an alternative, there is a way to compare both unload data, but there are two problems.- Both unloads must be executed...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

extend the size limit on the security rules

as a developer many "Read" security rules are implemented for the business requirement, and we notice that the limit for the amount of read implementations is reached and is more complex migrate all this rules to a view or object side or Java exte...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Future consideration

Classic CDC for IMS - Enhanced Z/OS monitoring ability

When conducting CDC for IMS Publishing to MQ we are able to start an online trace in the Classic Data Architecht tool which provides ud with multiple information among others the ability to see if the CDC for IMS Capture task is keeping up pace wi...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Migrating Changes Only

There is the new tool which allows you to compare two environments which is pretty good at showing a complete list of changes. We would like to now migrate only the differences between the two environments. Given the changes span the whole range o...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

Reduce Severity on U0456 ABEND for CDC Server

Whenever an apply PSB is unavailable, IMS throws a U0456 ABEND, the subscription errors out, and CDC turns of persistency for the subscription . According to IBM CDC Level 2 support, this is expected functionality. They recommend an RFE be created...
almost 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Increase medium performance to upload data via FastMap

The medium performance to upload data via FastMap is unacceptable by the client. The uploading time of 3 records per second must be reduced to 6 records per second. We are referring to the simple upload, with just the standard FastMap checks, with...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Future consideration

Multiple transitions between a set of stages

Currently WF allows only 1 transition to be defined between 2 stages lets say from Stage A to Stage B. There is a need to allow 2 different actions (transitions) between these 2 stages i.e. from Stage A to Stage B. Based on the action selected, th...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration