This parameter is applicable when you have transactions running in a distributed unit of work (DUOW) environment. This parameter also applies to recovery of federated database systems.
Recommendation: If, in your environment, indoubt transactions will not interfere with other transactions against your database, you might want to increase the value of this parameter. If you are using a DB2 Connect™ gateway to access DRDA2 application servers, you should consider the effect indoubt transactions might have at the application servers even though there will be no interference with local data access. If there are no indoubt transactions, the performance impact will be minimal.