Establishing a Point of Consistency

In order to ensure that it is possible to recover to a point in time where everything is consistent and in sync, a point of consistency or a common quiesce point must be established. This point of consistency is to establish a recovery set so that related objects will be recovered to a consistent point in time.

A point of consistency is established by executing the QUIESCE utility. The QUIESCE utility “quiets” the system and writes to the log the time in which there was no activity and everything was in sync. It does this by waiting for current units of work to complete and preventing any new ones from beginning. When the last unit of work has completed, a quiesce point is established. This is recorded for ...

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