Treehouse Professional Services consultants help Adabas / Natural customers in a variety of ways, including DBA services, performance tuning, change management implementation and training, and data replication planning and training. Our experience and long history of service to the Adabas / Natural community helps us create innovative solutions for our customers’ challenges.
Recently Treehouse Senior Technical Representative Chris Rudolph assisted a customer with a tricky data replication problem. The customer uses tcVISION to perform bi-directional replication between Adabas and an RDBMS during the phase-in of a new application. Unfortunately, the new application incorrectly updated certain columns in the RDBMS, which were then replicated to Adabas. The customer attempted to address the issue by running a series of ADASEL reports against the Adabas PLOG and manually checking for “bad” transactions, which was a very time consuming process that pulled the Adabas DBA away from her normal duties.
Chris explained that tcVISION could expedite the process by replicating all transactions for the Adabas file to a journal table capturing the “before” and “after” values of the problematic columns. The developers working on the new application could then identify invalid values, correct the application, and patch the data themselves. This also allowed the Adabas DBA to return to their normal duties.
The journal table now includes columns to display the “before” and “after” values of the corrupted column, Adabas transaction time, end transaction time, operation and Adabas userid. The customer’s developers immediately recognized immense value from being able to query the journal table to find bad data, patch the data, prove that corruption is no longer taking place, and verify that all corrupted instances of the data have been patched. Journal tables have been added for all replicated Adabas files, and the developers now rely on the journal tables for all of their data patches.
Find out more about tcVISION — Enterprise ETL and Real-Time Data Replication Through Change Data Capture
tcVISION provides easy and fast data migration for mainframe application modernization projects and enables bi-directional data replication between mainframe, Linux, Unix and Windows platforms.
tcVISION acquires data in bulk or via change data capture methods, including in real time, from virtually any IBM mainframe data source (Software AG Adabas, IBM DB2, IBM VSAM, IBM IMS/DB, CA IDMS, CA Datacom, even sequential files), and transform and deliver to virtually any target. In addition, the same product can extract and replicate data from a variety of non-mainframe sources, including Adabas LUW, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 LUW and DB2 BLU, IBM Informix and PostgreSQL.
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