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AREA is stopped on that local system. If the CI is not in the CF, it is read from DASD and
written to the CF.
Write errors to a single CF structure:
IMS Version 7 exploits the I/O toleration (IOT) function that was previously used only by
full function databases, to improve the availability of data in a data entry database
(DEDB). IOT is used to store data from CIs that experience write I/O errors in IOT buffers
which are kept in storage and maintained across IMS restarts until the AREA concerned is
recovered.
When a write error occurs:
– An EEQE is created in the RECON.
– IOT buffer is built in ECSA.
– The AREA is flagged as
recovery needed in the RECON until ...