Before you use the PWXUCDCT utility, review the following usage notes:
You can schedule PWXUCDCT utility commands to run during off-peak hours to avoid increasing the PowerExchange Logger workload when transaction activity is high.
If you run the PowerExchange Logger in continuous mode, do not use the CREATE_CDCT_BACKUP command to back up the CDCT file while it is being updated.
By default, the PWXUCDCT utility writes output from a REPORT command to stdout so that you see it on screen. To send the output to a file, you must specify a
. Otherwise, the PWXUCDCT utility scrolls the report lines onto the screen. For some REPORT commands, the utility also writes report messages to the PowerExchange message log but does not include the detailed lines that are written to stdout.
All PWXUCDCT utility commands other than REPORT_FILES_BY_TIME and REPORT_FILES_BY_NAME reference the CDCT file.
The CDCT file name includes the source instance name that is specified in the DBID parameter of the pwxccl configuration file. The CDCT location is determined by the CAPT_PATH parameter in the dbmover configuration file. The location can be expressed as $(CAPT_PATH)/CDCT_$(DBID).