If your applications are failing in an unexpected manner, it may be caused by MIMIX locking your objects for object retrieval processing while your applications are trying to access the object. This is a processing timing issue and can be significantly reduced, or eliminated, by specifying an appropriate delay value for the Object retrieval delay element under the Object processing (OBJPRC) parameter on the change or create data group definition commands.
Although you can specify this value at the data group level, you can override the data group value at the object level by specifying an Object retrieval delay value on the commands for creating or changing data group entries.
For more information see “Selecting an object retrieval delay” in the Assure MIMIX Administrator Reference book.
You should use care when choosing the object retrieval delay. A long delay may impact the ability of MIMIX system journal replication processes to move data from a system in a timely manner. Too short a delay may allow MIMIX to retrieve an object before an application is finished with it. You should make the value large enough to reduce or eliminate contention between MIMIX and applications, but small enough to allow MIMIX to maintain a suitable high availability environment.