GT.M does not make any decisions regarding originating or replicating operations of an instance. You must explicitly specify –ROOTPRIMARY to identify an instance as current originating instance during application startup.

To implement a robust, continuously available application, each application instance must come up in the correct state. In particular, there must be exactly one originating instance (-ROOTPRIMARY) at any given time. All database update operations on replicated databases must take place on the originating instance. LMS prohibits independent logical database updates on instances other than the originating instance.

	MUPIP BACKUP -ONLINE and MUPIP REORG -ONLINE update control information or physical representations, not the logical database contents, and can operate freely on a replicating instance.