Once your environment has been prepared, the first steps involve configuring/creating a Daemon, the Publisher Agent and an Engine, then running each of the three (3) components in standalone batch mode by the administrator user. This allows you to work out any security or environmental issues before running in started task mode.
This document guides you through the tasks in the following order:
- Setting up default libraries, directories, etc.
- Creating a Daemon and running it in standalone batch mode.
- Creating and configuring a Publisher Agent, registering the Agent with the Daemon and running in batch.
Once these steps have been completed and all components are working properly, you are ready to add more source/target interfaces and/or new Engines to your configuration.
One additional and significant activity discussed in this Quickstart is the initial load of the target datastores and the methods employed to achieve full synchronization of the source and target. The simplest method utilizes the Keyed File Compare Capture; the current VSAM file; an empty file. The method selected for the initial load of the target datastore must also consider concurrent source database activity. The source capture and target apply process must ensure that source and target synchronization is achieved, often with a "catch-up" phase during which Connect CDC (SQData) will perform compensation.