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Status Under review
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 19, 2024

SQL Stored Procedure or Demo of Converting IBM BOOKMARK to SQL LSN or SQL LSN to IBM BOOKMARK even JAR Conversion Code

We lost a 15 minute SQL Log Chain Backup See Case TS016972617 - for 3 Databases and there was no way to recover - except to point IBM Bookmark at the start of the next Good SQL Log Backup LSN - but to do that we needed to convert a SQL LSN to IBM BOOKMARK - For some reason IBM could not do this - even though the code must be in the application so we had to work it out for ourselves - see below (which converts  IBM BOOKMARK to SQL LSN or SQL LSN to IBM BOOKMARK ) we ended up losing maybe 3 SQL Transactions per DB in that 15 mins - which is manageable - rather than performing a   Mark Table  Capture Point which would have made us lose 6 hours work of source data  - Why can't this transation code be provided as as link on your website or instructions to fix for others 

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
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    Aug 20, 2024

    I note that a BOOKMARK Decoder program exists for AS400  to convert it to a Journal Sequence Number - why can't the same  be provided for SQL Server?