IPlanet DS5.1 SP1 Replication Problem

Question

Hi:
I am running iPlanet Direc Serv 5.1 SP1 on Solaris 8 boxes. I have a single master and a couple of consumers. Sometimes replication stops working in that the master binds to the clients and according to the consumer logs, it does a search and a couple of extended operations but no MOD operation to actually send any data across.
I am replicating two suffixes and they seem to work or not independently. I've tired rebooting the master and the consumer, and even reinitializing the consumer, which it does just fine, but it still won't send data updates. No errors are logged on either the master or the consumer, and the master's replication status indicates no errors, but also shows that no changes are being sent.
I don't know if this is pertinent, but the master is configured as a legacy consumer and gets its data from a DS4.12 server.
The symptoms are very similar to what was reported by Chandra Mouli in June 2002. Unfortunately the response then was wait for the next version. If anyone has any thoughts on what I am doing wrong that is causing thsi bug, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you. Thanks.
Russ

Answer 1

Hi Olivier,
Usually， the error will occurs when you upgrade to  the SQL Server 2012 SP2. We can upgrade to SQL Server 2012 SP2 with CU1. According to your description, the error still exists.
As a workaround we suggested that change the column type for “last_local_recgen” in table named as “sysmergesubscriptions” both for Published and Subscribed databases. Microsft had added an additional 3 columns to a replication table named 'dbo.sysmergesubscriptions'
in SP2 and there is one column having a wrong datatype. You can use the below script to fix the datatype.
if exists (select * from sys.columns sc inner join sys.types st on sc.system_type_id = st.system_type_id
where object_id = object_id('dbo.sysmergesubscriptions') and sc.name = 'last_local_recgen' and st.name = 'uniqueidentifier')
begin
begin transaction
alter table dbo.sysmergesubscriptions drop column last_local_recgen
alter table dbo.sysmergesubscriptions add last_local_recgen bigint null
Commit transaction
End
Regards,
Sofiya Li
Sofiya Li
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