IT16438: FAILED REPLICATION ENDING STATISTICS ARE INCORRECT

APAR status

• Closed as fixed if next.

Error description

• When replication between a source server and target server
  fails, the transaction is aborted, but the ending statistics
  reported do not correctly reflect what has been replicated
  correctly and what has not.
  
  Customer/L2 Diagnostics (If Applicable)
  
  Example of a failed replication process :
  
  ANR0102E tbcli.c(2187): Error 1202 inserting row in table
  "Replicated.Objects".
  ANR2183W nrmain.c(12878): Transaction 0:4872134 was aborted.
  
  The ending statistics reported on this occasion :
  
  05/27/2016 09:39:30      ANR0327I Replication of node MYNODE
        completed. Files current: 235,673.  Files replicated: 132
        of 145. Files updated: 39 of 39. Files deleted: 45 of 45.
        Amount replicated: 23,994 KB of 23,994 KB.  Amount
        transferred: 178 KB. Elapsed time: 0 Days, 0 Hours, 2
        Minutes.
  
  Immediately afterwards, the node is replicated again, which also
  fails but the ending statistics are exactly the same for the
  "Files replicated" :
  
  05/27/2016 09:49:47      ANR0327I Replication of node MYNODE
        completed. Files current: 235,673.  Files replicated: 132
        of 145. Files updated: 39 of 39. Files deleted: 0 of 0.
        Amount replicated: 23,994 KB of 23,994 KB.  Amount
        transferred: 178 KB. Elapsed time: 0 Days, 0 Hours, 2
        Minutes.
  
  So from this example, we see "Files replicated: 132 of 145".  If
  the transaction was aborted, we would expect the number of
  replicated files to be adjusted accordingly to what's actually
  been committed and what has not been committed. The above
  implies we successfully replicated 132 files, which is not the
  case as in the next replication attempt, the same number of
  files are attempted again.
  
  Tivoli Storage Manager Versions Affected:
  Tivoli Storage Manager and Spectrum Protect version 6.3 and
  above on all platforms
  
  Initial Impact: Low|Medium|High
  Low
  
  Additional Keywords:
  TSM, Spectrum Protect,  replicate, repl, stats
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * All IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and Spectrum Protect server   *
  * users.                                                       *
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  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * See error description.                                       *
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  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  * This problem is projected to be fixed in a future version of *
  * the IBM SPectrum Protect server.  Note that this is subject  *
  * to change at the discretion of IBM.                          *
  * Affected platforms for reported release:  AIX, HP-UX,        *
  * Solaris, Linux, and Windows.                                 *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

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Fix information

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