Suspending the Capture program (Linux, UNIX, Windows, z/OS)

You can suspend the Capture program to free operating system resources during peak periods without destroying the Capture program environment.

Before you begin

The Capture program with the specific Capture schema must be started.

About this task

You can also suspend the Capture program instead of stopping it if you do not want the Capture program to shut down after it finishes work in progress. When you tell the Capture to resume, you do not require the overhead of Capture starting again.
Important: Do not suspend the Capture program before you remove a replication source. Instead, deactivate then remove the replication source.

Procedure

To suspend the Capture program, use the suspend subcommand of the MODIFY or asnccmd command.
If you stop or suspend the Capture program during pruning, pruning is also suspended. When you resume or restart the Capture program, pruning resumes based on the autoprune parameter.