Managing active and prepared transactions
Use this task to manage active and prepared transactions that might need administrator action.
About this task
Under normal circumstances, transactions should run and complete (commit or roll back) automatically, without the need for intervention. However, in some circumstances, you might have to resolve a transaction manually. For example, you might want to roll back a transaction that has become stuck polling a resource manager that you know will not become available again within the required timeframe.
Note: If you choose to complete a transaction on an application server, it is recorded
as having completed in the transaction service logs for that server, so will not be eligible for
recovery during server start up. If you complete a transaction, you are responsible for cleaning up
any in-doubt transactions on the resource managers affected.
You can use the administrative console to display a snapshot of all the transactions in an
application server that are in the following states:
- Manual transactions
- Transactions awaiting administrative completion. For each transaction, the local ID or global ID is displayed. You can choose to display information on each resource (specifically, which resource manager it is associated with) associated with the transaction. You can also choose to commit or roll back transactions in this state.
- Retry transactions
- Transactions with some resources being retried. For each transaction, the local ID or global ID is displayed, and whether the transaction is committing or rolling back. You can choose to display information on each resource (specifically, which resource manager it is associated with) associated with the transaction. You can also choose to finish (stop retrying) transactions in this state.
- Heuristic transactions
- Transactions that have completed heuristically. For each transaction, the local ID or global ID and the heuristic outcome is displayed. You can choose to display information on each resource (specifically, which resource manager it is associated with) associated with the transaction. You can also choose to clear the transaction from the list.
- Imported prepared transactions
- Transactions that have been imported and prepared but not yet committed. For each transaction, the local ID or global ID is displayed. You can choose to display information on each resource (specifically, which resource manager it is associated with) associated with the transaction. You can also choose to commit or roll back transactions in this state.
To manage the active and prepared transactions for an application server, use the administrative console to complete the following steps: