IMS CDC Connector rules and guidelines

• •IMS CDC connections are for sources only. Do not specify a IMS CDC connection for a target.
• •IMS CDC Connector connects to a PowerExchange Listener on the PowerExchange source system by using the Listener Location property in the IMS CDC connection definition. On the Connector system, you do not need to create a local copy of the DBMOVER configuration file that contains a NODE statement pointing to the PowerExchange Listener.
• •If you upgrade your system to a later PowerExchange version, you must stop the Secure Agent that connects to the older PowerExchange Listener before you try to connect to the upgraded PowerExchange Listener. After you edit the connection properties to specify the upgraded PowerExchange Listener, restart the Secure Agent before you try to establish the connection again. For more information, see Upgrading to a new version of PowerExchange.
• •The PowerExchange Listener can compress or encrypt the change data that it sends to the PWX CDC Reader component of IMS CDC Connector depending on how you set the Compression and Encryption properties for the connection.
• •IMS CDC Connector supports PowerExchange Logger group definition files. A group definition file creates a separate set of PowerExchange Logger log files for each defined group of registered IMS source tables. When a mapping task runs, the PWX CDC Reader reads only the subset of log files for the group that contains the source table.
• •If you include multiple IMS source tables in a mapping, the PWX CDC Reader automatically uses group source processing to read change records for all of the tables in a single pass.
• •The PWX CDC Metadata Adapter retrieves information for registered IMS source tables from the PowerExchange extraction-map metadata file, CAMAPS. The Adapter retrieves information only from PowerExchange-generated extraction maps that have names beginning with "d." The extraction maps provide information, such as the incoming fields, to use when you create a mapping. The Adapter does not retrieve information from user-defined extraction maps that have names beginning with "u" for user-defined.
• • The PowerExchange change data extraction modes, as defined in the PowerExchange CDC Guide for z/OS, do not pertain to the IMS CDC Connector. The PWX CDC Reader component of IMS CDC Connector extracts change records until it reaches the end-of-log in the PowerExchange Logger log files and then stops. However, the PowerExchange configuration that the PWX CDC Reader requires is similar to the configuration for continuous extraction mode in the following ways:
• - A CAPX CAPI_CONNECTION statement must exist in the PowerExchange DBMOVER configuration file.
• - The capture registrations for IMS source tables must specify Part for the Condense option.
• • The maximum network buffer size that the PowerExchange Listener can use for sending data is 8 MB. If you have a mapping with an extremely large IMS source table, this maximum buffer size might be exceeded. In this case, the mapping task fails with the following error:
PWXPC_10034 [date time] [ERROR] CDCDispatcher cannot fetch changed data from the PowerExchange Listener. Error code: [271]
• •If you change the source object in a mapping that has been used for CDC processing, create a new mapping task for the mapping. If you need to retain the mapping task that is currently associated with the mapping, increment the revision number in the CDC Runtime properties for the mapping task.