Advanced Logdump Investigation: Silent Column Misalignment from a Stale SOURCEDEFS File
The previous investigation had an abend and an error code to start from. This one is harder precisely because there isn’t one — Replicat is running, lag is zero, the report file is clean, and yet a nightly reconciliation job is flagging rows where the target’s EMAIL column contains what looks like a phone number. When replication looks completely healthy but the data is wrong, the investigation has to start from the data itself, not from a log. ...