This information provides guidelines for recovering from structure connections that are hung in a FAILING or DISCONNECTING state. Unlike a connection state of ACTIVE or FAILED-PERSISTENT, a FAILING or DISCONNECTING state is a transitory state. When a connector disconnects from a structure, the disconnect process might place the connection into a DISCONNECTING or FAILING state. This is normal. However, a connection should not remain in the FAILING or DISCONNECTING state indefinitely.

Connections hung in a FAILING or DISCONNECTING state will likely be discovered when the associated connector job tries to reconnect to the structure and the reconnect (IXLCONN macro) request is rejected.