RDF/IMP and IMPX System Management Manual (RDF 1.4+)

Entering RDFCOM Commands
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Command Overview
month
is the first three letters of the month, such as JAN, FEB, MAR.
year
is a four-digit number greater than 1996.
hour
is a number from 0 to 23.
min
is a number from 00 to 59. min must be preceded by a colon (:).
INITTIME <day><mon><year><hour>:<min>
is a timestamp used for online product initialization. It has the same format as the
timestamp parameter described above.
To determine the appropriate value to use as the inittime parameter, first issue
an RDFCOM STATUS RDF command and take note of the highest updater RTD
time. Then round that RTD time up to the next highest minute internal (0:43
becomes 1:00, 1:27 becomes 2:00, 3:04 becomes 4:00, and so forth). Finally,
subtract that rounded-up time from the current system time as shown in the status
display.
inittime := (current-system-time — rounded-highest-updater-RTD-time)
RDFCOM then subtracts an additional three minutes from the specified time
stamp. This is to ensure that the extractor’s starting position is at a point in the
MAT where RDF had previously sent audit information to the backup system and
the updaters had applied it to the backup database. This practice guarantees that
no audit information will be lost during reinitialization.
See Online Product Initialization for a description of this feature.
SYNCHDBTIME <day><mon><year><hour>:<min>
is a timestamp used for online database synchronization. It has the same format
as the timestamp parameter described above.
There are no special considerations for specifying the synchdbtime parameter,
except that it must designate a time earlier than the present time.
The SYNCHDBTIME parameter can only be used if RDF/IMPX is installed on both
the primary and backup systems.
For a description of the online synchronization feature, see Section 7, Online
Database Synchronization.