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Store and Forward

The Store and Forward feature (SAF) guarantees message delivery through the storage and eventual forwarding of messages that cannot be immediately delivered to target nodes (because of network problems, because the Event Manager is not running, and so on). Store and Forward is enabled during installation by setting and exporting the environment variable INSTALLSAF=Y in the $CAIGLBL0000/PROFILE file.

When Store and Forward is activated, the Event Management guaranteed message delivery feature is activated. With this feature activated, any messages that cannot be delivered in real time will be stored for automatic delivery at some later time when the destination applications are once again reachable. (Undeliverable messages are stored in a file located, by default, in the directory $CAIGLBL0000/opr/saf. Once all messages in this file have been sent, the file is automatically erased.)