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Replication: IMS / VSAM

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CECBTCCP should allow creating, etc., subscriptions

PGM=CECBTCCP should support not just starting and stopping subscriptions, but also support exporting and importing existing definitions, defining, modifying and deleting subscriptions and their mappings.
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

CICS Logstream Replication

Looking for a solution to replicate CICS logstreams from a primary site to a secondary site to support Continuity of Business (COB). The CICS logstreams include both CICS VSAM after-image records and CICS user journal records written by CICS appli...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 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 6 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 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Needs a clean-up solution when open thread is active and there is an IMS outage

Please refer to the PMR:01622,69G,760.-----------------------------My customer does not want to restart the apply server when recovering the IMS failure.This is because the replication stop time expands and the data reflection on the target is del...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

InfoSphere Data Replication for VSAM - request to remove the need of CICS

In some banking customers, OLTP server is pure IMS. They mix the use of IMS DB and VSAM files. The complete GDPS A-A solution need to replicate DB and VSAM to site 2. However, current VSAM replication need CICS been start in site 2 to apply change...
over 6 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 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Support IMS Unload file 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 6 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 6 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 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration