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Replication: IMS / VSAM

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InfoSphere Classic CDC for z/OS - START REPL REFRESH command

Need to have a z/OS start subscription command for REFRESH only ( Refresh Method ). The only existing command is : START,REPL,SUBSCR=xx,CONTINUOUS.The wanted command is : START,REPL,SUBSCR=xx,REFRESH.
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

CECBTCCP should allow relative timestamps

CECBTCCP should allow relative times.
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

store/show User ID via CECBTCCP

the QUERY command for PGM=CECBTCCP should also show the user ID.
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

ADABAS phonetic keys

Classic Federation does not support phonetic descriptors for an index. For ADABAS, the phonetic descriptor is a key like any other and an important resource, much used, Classic Federation should support it .
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

IMS Rep: unique error message for errors genning apply PSB

The error message displayed on failure to gen an apply PSB should provide enough information for common failures to easily identify the underlying cause.
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Improve parallel processing performance of Refresh

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Improvement Refresh performance of multi-view definition segment

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Generate DB2 load file by CDC Utility

A project using the replication function from IMS to DB2 on Linux is in progress, but there is a requirement that it is difficult to deal with some. For example, there is a requirement to add a new segment by the Unload/Load function of IMS utilit...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

ICFS SQLCODE-401 for Graphic colomn

Classic Federation Server for z/OS V11.1SELECT ... WHERE COL1='dbcs' got SQLCODE-401.DB2 allows 'dbcs' as well as G'dbcs' for GRAPHIC literal, but CFS does not.
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

IMS Rep: maintain/reset error status for subscriptions

There have been times when a subscription had an error that resulted in the subscription stopping, but also resulted in the started task crashing. When automation restarts the task, the errored subscription is now in an "inactive" status, in spite...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration