Restrictions on federated updates with application savepoints

Federated systems impose some restrictions on savepoint operations.

Savepoint support for write operations on remote data in federated applications is limited to Db2®. The following restrictions apply to the data source object that the nickname is defined for (as the target of a write operation):
  • For Version 9.5, the data source object in a savepoint operation can be a nickname itself.
  • For previous versions, the data source object in a savepoint operation cannot be a nickname.

You can activate savepoints in serial mode, the massively parallel processing (MPP) environment, and the federated one-phase commit or federated two-phase commit environments. Any restrictions that exist in these environments also apply to savepoints operations.