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  1. Preface
  2. PowerExchange Installation and Upgrade Overview
  3. Installation Planning
  4. Upgrade Planning
  5. Installing and Upgrading PowerExchange on IBM i
  6. Installing and Upgrading PowerExchange on Linux and UNIX
  7. Installing and Upgrading PowerExchange on Windows
  8. Installing and Upgrading PowerExchange on z/OS
  9. Appendix A: Upgrade Considerations
  10. Appendix B: PowerExchange Environment
  11. Appendix C: Manual Installation on IBM i

Installation and Upgrade Guide

Installation and Upgrade Guide

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Configuration Parameters That Point to PowerExchange Files on Linux, UNIX, and Windows

Configuration Parameters That Point to PowerExchange Files on Linux, UNIX, and Windows

After you install PowerExchange for the first time or migrate to a new release in a new PowerExchange environment, you must create directories for PowerExchange files. Then, in the appropriate configuration parameters, point to these directories.
The following table lists the dbmover and PowerExchange Logger configuration parameters that you set to point to the new file locations:
Configuration File
Parameter
Points to
dbmover.cfg
CAPT_PATH
Directory that contains the following control files:
  • CCT file that contains capture registrations
  • CDEP file that contains application names and information about extraction processes that have run
  • PowerExchange Logger CDCT file
These files cannot reside in NAS or SAN storage.
dbmover.cfg
CAPT_XTRA
Extraction maps
dbmover.cfg
DMX_DIR
File that contains data maps
pwxccl.cfg
EXT_CAPT_MASK
PowerExchange Logger log files
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