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Replication: IMS / VSAM

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Single Table Definition for Multiple VSAM files in CDA

Single Table Definition for Multiple VSAM files in CDA We partition VSAM files into 10, for better performance, all these 10 files have same structure, just data is partitionedWould need an ability to MAP all these 10 files into a single Table on ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

IMS Rep support for IMS catalog managed ACBs

Support converting the IMS ACBLIBs to strictly the IMS catalog managed ACBs.
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

IMS Rep should support NOTWIN without requiring a key

Support NOTWIN segments by eliminating II status code replication failures in spite of the lack of a key.
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Delivered

VSAM Replication ends in error when a CF Structure is rebuild and has to be manually restarted.

When a CF Structure is rebuilt Replication ends in error with CECC0209E - error code 150011.Replication has to be restarted manually (or by our automation) when this occurs.We recognise that a CF rebuild is a rare event but it would be useful if R...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

STOP writer tasks in parallel

Please stop the IMS writer tasks in parallel on a STOP,ALL, though the higher level tasks, such as the apply service, can continue waiting for all writers to end.
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

Option to force apply an update which is failing due to a before image mis-match

Would be very useful to have the ability to chose to force apply an update if a file is out-of-sync from the source. We are using adaptive apply and have experienced CECW0025I messsages (for example) because the before image of a record does not m...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

Replication: global init and term

The conflict apply exit should have an additional, global init and term phase that gets executed once before/after the init/term of the individual subscriptions. This phase should be able to (de)allocate storage for use by any/all individual apply...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 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

CFC1 writer task should gracefully handle SYSID error when target CICS region has been shutdown

A CFC1 writer task should be able to handle a SYSID error when the target CICS region is being shutdown.
almost 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 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

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