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Replication: IMS / VSAM

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Subscriptions are removed from being persistent when a target data channel comms. error is received.

== Customer is running Classic to IIDR/CDC SQL. Target SQL failed due to comms. issue in the data channel which was was considered non recoverable and dropped the sub. from being persistent. Would like the sub. to be restarted in this case.
over 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Provide an option to clear the timestamp from the Classic internal buffers.

Provide an option with CDC to clear the timestamp from the Classic internal buffers.
over 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Functionality already exists

Management console not showing  Classic VSAM to CDC DB2 Zos  subscription refresh statistics

In Management console, when a Classic CDC source (VSAM table) is refreshed to the DB2 Zos target table, the refresh statistics is not displayed.In other configs, the refresh activity is clearly displayed once the "clooect statistics" is clicked.un...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Improve function for decompress of IMS type99 log using H/W component instead of MVS service

We plan to use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS for next disaster recovery system. It needs new IMS type99 log records for data replication at source system.The target system's CPU usage was dramatically increased. We would like to reduce C...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Support High Availailty with hot standby mode

IMS, in support of HA, supports the concept of rolling maintenance where the IMS systems would be shutdown one at a time so that changes/maintenance can be applied. Once applied the system is restarted and the next IMS system is shutdown until we ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Timestamp in IIDR for VSAM messages in GMT (not local time zone)

The timestamp in IIDR server logs is GMT. When we switch to BST, the timestamp is confusing as shows as 1 hour behind.
almost 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Classic CDC/ IIDR for VSAM needs to send only needed data for Replication

Classic CDC/IIDR for Vsam capture is sending the before values for all fields in source VSAM datasets.This adds significant overhead. The capture needs to send the before and after values of the key column and before and after image of the changed...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Track the oldest read-for-update in the bookmark to know where to start rebuilding read-for-updates on restart

VSAM Replication to track the oldest read-for-update in the bookmark to know where to start rebuilding read-for-updates on restart. This is required to resolve the issues we have been experiencing when our application does a read-for-update hours ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Infosphere IMS replication needs to handle compressed logs

Product: Classic IMS Replication - Ref PMR 79637,082,000"Classic needs to be able to determine the compressed log records never included data capture log records or commit/back-outrecords for any in-flight UOR that included data capture log records".
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Remove numeric IP addresses in IIDR IMS configuration

Numeric IP addresses are used in CECE1OPT and the NOTIFICATIONURL for the log notification service.We would like to use DNS names instead.
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration