You can suspend change capture for the following z/OS ECCRs:

Suspending capture registrations temporarily stops change capture activity for registered sources during a suspension window. You can reactivate the suspended capture registrations later to resume change data capture. Temporarily suspending change data capture has many uses, for example:

When you use the PWXUCREG utility to change the registration status, it sets suspension and activation timestamps. The period bounded by the suspension and activation timestamps is called the

suspension window

.

You must refresh the ECCR after a registration status change to have it detect the status change and get the suspension and activation timestamps. During the suspension window, the ECCR discards change records that have a timestamp later than the suspension timestamp. The utility writes message output for registration status changes for audit and monitoring purposes.

The PowerExchange Navigator displays the current registration status in the

Status

field of the Resource Inspector. After the utility processes a PWXUCREG registration suspension request, the Resource Inspector displays the suspension timestamp in the current system time in the

Suspend Time

field and displays the value Suspended in the

Status

field.

Reactivation of a suspended registration can be performed by using the ACTIVATE_REGISTRATION or CANCEL_SUSPEND_REGISTRATION commands. After the utility processes a PWXUCREG registration reactivation request, the Resource Inspector displays the activation timestamp in the

Active Time

field and resets the

Status

to Active.