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Replication: IMS / VSAM

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CHCCLP event monitoring restructuring

CHCCLP returns events from the oldest to the newest, with a limit of 10000 events returned. When using CHCCLP to monitor subscription activity, the intent should be to get the most recent events and current status of subscriptions, not the oldest ...
about 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Planned for future release

Classic CDC to Support column-level CodePage selection

I work at a financial institution where we process mainframe information in EBCDIC CodePage 037, 838, 930 and 937.Currently we plan to work around a CodePage limitation by generating four separate subscriptions; one for each EBCDIC CodePage we wan...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

IMS Rep: support mixed case commands

Support mixed case commands. For example, issuing the following MVS command results in everything but the 'setlogpos.servertime' being uppercased while the quoted part remains lower case: f ima#cdc,set,repl,all,'setlogpos,servertime=2017-03-29-18....
almost 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Is a defect

Functions to initialize replication _DURING_UPDATING_ source DB are needed for IMS replication

Functions to initialize replication _DURING_UPDATING_ source DB are needed for IMS replication (IIDR for IMS) in case of failing to continue replication, especially due to inconsistency between source and target DBs. (just like "FULLREFRESH" of II...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

CDA Insufficient Access Authority when logging on

Ref TS003663019 - When using CDA there is no option to log-in with read-only access so the assumption is that any CDA user could add, delete, or update a subscription. This is inapproriate for a Production Environment hence why we are experiencing...
over 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere Classic CDC - needs to handle IMS exits better

Currently, the Infosphere Classic CDC comes with 2 IMS exits:DFSFLGX0DFSPPUE0These datasets need to be in the IMS Steplib concatenation to be accessed, and are using the default names. Now that IMS V13 and IMS V14 can specify any module name for a...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Please increase the timeout value on the SLDS contention situation.

Customers would like to have larger timeout value on the SLDS contention situation. This is because,- SLDS contention situation could happen in production. - It is not a problem or operation mistake. - In that situation, customer does not like to ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

SSIDEXCLUDELIST - Generic namesc

It would be very helpful to have the possibility to code some generic names in the Classic Change Data Capture for IMS z/OS in the parameter field SSIDEXCLUDELIST. In some cases, customers need to code several hundred or thousands of names which ...
over 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Adding the Batch job name in the message CECZ0993E when Batch Job has DBRC=N

We are having problem when in Dev/PROD regions DBRC is not enforced. Whenever any Batch JOB submitted with DBRC=N, it hanged entire subscription and lot other problem appeared. e.g. Subscription failures, OLD logs to be looked for whenever CDC tas...
about 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Allow IMS Replication Subscription to Retry a Failed UOR When Bookmark DB is Unavailable

A persistent issue we are running into in our test environments is that a /DBR DB ALL command is being issued a couple of hours prior to the daily recycling of the environment. A /STA DB command is issued for the bookmark database, but the subscri...
about 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration