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Status Not under consideration
Categories Performance
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 17, 2024

SFG Resiliency

Customer had two issues in differente dates. Those issues were a high network latency. The first issue was some problem with the network and after few days the DNS.

In both cases SFG colapsed and crashed. Some SFG transfers were lost.

There is the need that SFG not colpases on connectivity issues for a period of time that could be seconds to minutes.
This means SFG support some outage of external components such as DataBase, NFS, File System etc.

Even if there is a full database outage (DB or network problem).

This outage could be seconds or few minutes.

 

THIS RFE IS LINKED TO B2B-I-1371

  • Admin
    Mark Allen
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    May 15, 2024

    Thank you for taking the time to provide your ideas to IBM. We truly value our relationship with you and appreciate your willingness to share details about your experience, your recommendations, and ideas.

    IBM has evaluated the request and has determined that it cannot be implemented at this time or does not align with our current strategy or roadmap.

    Looking at the support ticket, the root cause of the outages appears to be external components that may not be highly available. SFG is dependent on downstream systems being highly available including but not limited to DB, network, filesystem, etc.


    Business Processes have the ability to do on-fault handling that allow you to do automatic reprocessing and recovery. This would need to be specified in the BPML to handle the timeout/retry for a given period of time or number of retries (i.e. sleep time and looping retries). The BP could also be configured to send an email if it experiences a fault.

    Thank you for bringing your ideas to us. If you have any additional feedback, thoughts or ideas, or if there is anything else I can do, please do not hesitate to reply to this message to continue the conversation.

  • Admin
    Mark Allen
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    May 9, 2024

    Thank you for taking the time to provide your ideas to IBM. We truly value our relationship with you and appreciate your willingness to share details about your experience, your recommendations, and ideas.

    We are currently reviewing this request with our technical team and will update the status once our analysis is complete.