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Search results: Data Replication: IMS / VSAM

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

Track completed UORs to improve conflict handling during a subscription's adaptive apply restart window

When a subscription is restarted, a conflict from the original failing UOR is ignored during the subscription's adaptive apply restart window, resulting in an erroneous, successful restart of the subscription. Because of the unknow state of the up...
almost 6 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

needs a solution for deadlock between multiple change streams

Please refer to the PMR 10350,69G,760----------------------------------------Customer would like to avoid a deadlock situations between multiple change streams when he started some subscriptions in test scenario of source server failure. Since IID...
over 7 years ago in Data 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 ...
about 9 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

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.
about 7 years ago in Data 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 ...
over 7 years ago in Data 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 ...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

IMS Rep: maintain/reset error status for subscriptions

There have been times when a subscription had an error that resulted in the subscription stopping, but also resulted in the started task crashing. When automation restarts the task, the errored subscription is now in an "inactive" status, in spite...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration