Review the IMS Connector rules and guidelines before you begin creating connections, mappings, and mapping tasks.
•You can use IMS connections for sources and targets.
•IMS Connector connects to a PowerExchange Listener on the PowerExchange source system by using the Listener Location property in the IMS 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 Reader component of IMS Connector depending on how you set the Compression and Encryption properties for the connection.
•If you include multiple IMS source objects in a mapping, the PWX Bulk Reader automatically uses group source processing to read data for all of the objects in a single pass.
•IMS 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 IMS source objects. When a mapping task runs, the PWX Reader reads only the subset of log files for the group that contains the source table.
•If you change the source object in a mapping that has been used for processing, create a new mapping task for the mapping.