Creating ATS and RIS Directories

The Aborted Transactions Spooling (ATS) and Row Information Spooling (RIS) files contain information about failed transactions and aborted rows. You can repair data after replication has failed by using ATS and RIS files. Enterprise Replication examines the specified ATS or RIS file and attempts to reconcile the rows that failed to be applied. This method is fast, but does not allow as much flexibility as a repair job allows in defining how the repair should be done. See Repairing Failed Transactions with ATS and RIS Files for more information. For information about repair jobs, see Resynchronizing Data Among Replication Servers.

If you set up ATS and RIS, Enterprise Replication writes ATS and RIS files to directories on the system:

• ATS files

  If you are using primary-target replication, create the ATS directory on the target system. If you are using update-anywhere replication (Update-Anywhere Replication System) and have conflict resolution (Conflict Resolution) enabled, create the ATS directory on all participating replication systems.

• RIS files

  If you have conflict resolution enabled, create the RIS directory on all participating replication systems.

The default location for these directories is /tmp (UNIX) or \tmp (Windows). Specify a location other than /tmp or \tmp for the spooling directories.

Create the new location for these directories before you define the server for replication. The pathnames for the ATS and RIS directories cannot be longer than 256 characters.

For information about ATS and RIS, refer to Monitoring and Troubleshooting Enterprise Replication.