After a message has ended with the MESSAGE END statement and has been committed to make it persistent, you send it to the master database using the MESSAGE FORWARD statement. Each sent message is issued a reply message from the master database and each message returns a result set that should be fetched through the client application. The syntax is:
You can set the TIMEOUT option to define how long the replica database waits for the reply message before it expires and has to be requested using the MESSAGE GET REPLY statement described in the following section.
Note If a master does not receive a complete message, then the master will not execute the portion of the message that it did receive.