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Bug Busters Enhances High-Availability Offering

Bug Busters Software Engineering has issued release 8.4 of RSF-HA, the high-availability version of its flagship RSF product. 

RSF-HA is a complete high availability (HA) and data replication solution for systems running IBM i. It's gained a compare feature, a new archive/refresh feature, role swap improvements and more. 

The new compare feature lets users compare the contents of any two libraries or IFS directories to see if they match. A list of nonidentical objects can be displayed, printed or sent to an outfile. Various options let users specify how deep to dig when comparing objects. This ability provides extra assurance when the libraries or directories are assumed to match, according to Bug Busters, as with archived libraries or libraries replicated for HA. If some objects differ, you can direct RSF to fix the problem by flagging those objects to be refreshed at the next HA synchronization interval. 

Another new set of RSF tools lets you take a snapshot of a library or IFS directory, experiment with and change the data, then refresh the library or directory, putting it back to the state it had before any changes were made. These tools can help manipulate test environments or validate libraries after a role swap. When an library is refreshed, changes made since the library was archived are reversed. In particular, new objects are deleted, missing objects are restored, and changed objects are restored to their archived state, including any changes to *PUBLIC or private authorities. 

RSF 8.4 continues to improve the role-swap process, the company says. A new checkpoint restart capability lets you restart the role-swap process where it left off in the event that the process was interrupted for any reason. New status messages are designed to keep you informed of exactly where you are in the role-swap process.