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Search results: Data Replication: IMS / VSAM

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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 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Proper messaging is needed for refresh or mirror not working

When a new file is created and Augmented for replication, and a refresh or mirroring is attempted , it does not work and below message is obtained.072-053,CRTSCVS,CRTSCVS,SYS00021,,,FBSIT.DBA.V2D.CHAR 817 IEC161I FBSIT.DBA.V2D.CHARI.DATA,SYS1.VSMS...
about 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Support IIDR reads from Secondary Volumes of Global Mirror

Support IIDR Capture reading from secondary volumes of Global Mirror.The customer uses IMS FP function for core banking systems. The customer is planning IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS(IIDR) as the next DR solution instead of IMS RSR.  As...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

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 7 years ago in Data 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 ...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

Getting the diagnostic metric without CDA

We would like to use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS without CDA in production environment for the following reasons.- We would not like to use Windows hardware and software because they add us additional work to maintain them. - We use Ne...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Delivered

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 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration