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Replication: IMS / VSAM

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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 ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Delivered

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 ...
almost 7 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.
almost 7 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.
almost 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 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.
almost 7 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...
about 7 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...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Delivered

IMS Rep: identify the most recent timestamp transmitted for each subscription

Provide a mechanism to determine the timestamp of the last UOR that has been transmitted to and committed by the target. It would be useful to have this in both absolute date and relative delta formats.
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

IMS Rep: survive invalid messages caused by security team's port scans

Create a mechanism by which the target task knows it has received all messages sent by the source task and, if it has, to ignore any "bad" message.
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

[Request ]CDEP LRS Termin...

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almost 9 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

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