Recommended procedure to reduce your save-outage time

You can use the following general procedure to reduce your outage for particular save operations. This procedure is the recommended way to use the save-while-active function on a daily basis. This save-while-active operations saves the objects as if they were saved in a dedicated fashion. This procedure does not require any special recovery procedures.

  1. End all application jobs that are making updates to the application-dependent objects.
  2. Start the save-while-active operation for the objects that reside in the application libraries. Specify a message queue on which to receive the checkpoint completion message.
  3. Wait for the checkpoint completion or termination message identified in SAVACTMSGQ checkpoint completion messages at the message queue you specified on the SAVACTMSGQ parameter.
  4. Start the application jobs again.
  5. For journaled objects in the save request, if you did not save their receivers in the request, save those receivers after the save request finishes.
Parent topic: Reduce your save-outage time
Related reference
Parameters for the save-while-active function
The checkpoint notification (SAVACTMSGQ) parameter