Configuring a server to use business activity support
Business activity support provides compensation for activities such as sending an email, which can be difficult or impossible to roll back atomically. With this compensation, applications on disparate systems can coordinate activities that are more loosely coupled than atomic transactions. To use the business activity support, you must first enable it on each server that you plan to use.
About this task
If an application component uses business activity support, you must enable the support on each server that runs the application.
Note: This topic references one or more of the application server log files. As a
recommended alternative, you can configure the server to use the High Performance Extensible Logging
(HPEL) log and trace infrastructure instead of using SystemOut.log ,
SystemErr.log, trace.log, and
activity.log files on distributed and IBM®
i systems. You can also use HPEL in conjunction with your native z/OS® logging facilities. If you are using HPEL, you can access all of your log and trace
information using the LogViewer command-line tool from your server profile bin directory. See the
information about using HPEL to troubleshoot applications for more information on using HPEL.
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Note: This topic references one or more of the application server log files. As a
recommended alternative, you can configure the server to use the High Performance Extensible Logging
(HPEL) log and trace infrastructure instead of using SystemOut.log ,
SystemErr.log, trace.log, and
activity.log files on distributed and IBM
i systems. You can also use HPEL in conjunction with your native z/OS logging facilities. If you are using HPEL, you can access all of your log and trace
information using the LogViewer command-line tool from your server profile bin directory. See the
information about using HPEL to troubleshoot applications for more information on using HPEL.
What to do next
Note: Applications can exploit the business activity support only if you
deploy them to a WebSphere Application Server at
Version 6.1 or later. Applications cannot use the business activity
support if you deploy them to a cluster that includes WebSphere Application ServerVersion 6.0.x servers.