Rapid Fire Plug-in

The Rapid Fire Open Source Project delivers a high quality and reliable solution for copying data while production is active.

Do you have files with millions or even billions of records? Imagine you have to change such a file e.g. a new field has to be added. Possibly you have the time to install this change at the weekend. But what if your shop works 24 hours a day and 7 days a week? In this case it is absolutely necessary to reduce the time needed for the installation to avoid a long shutdown of the system.

This is the point Rapid Fire comes in. With Rapid Fire it is possible to reduce the downtime of your system to a minimum. Instead of shutting down the system for hours or even days you can reduce this with Rapid Fire to minutes.

Rapid Fire features are driven from our ideas and needs, but everybody is encouraged to contribute suggestions and manpower to improve the power of Rapid Fire.

The Rapid Fire Project Team Task Force IT-Consulting GmbH, Frank Hildebrandt Tools/400, Thomas Raddatz

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File copy status

• Copy data while production is active.
• Reduce downtime when changing large tables.

The easiest way to install the Rapid Fire plug-in is using the official update sites:

	IBM Rational Developer for i - RDi 9.5.1.3+
	Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries - WDSCi 7.0

Refer to the Rapid Fire help page for detailed installation instructions.

The Rapid Fire beta versions are available here:

	IBM Rational Developer for i - RDi 9.5.1.3+ (beta)
	Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries - WDSCi 7.0 (beta)

Refer to the Rapid Fire help (beta version) page for detailed installation instructions.

Visit the Rapid Fire help page.

Ask your questions at the WDSCI-L mailing list at midrange.com.

For bug reports open a ticket at the Rapid Fire bug tracker.

The following terms are trademarks of the IBM Corporation in the United States or other countries or both:

• Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries 7.0
• IBM Rational Developer for i 9.5.1.3+