Use the activate subscription Command for Publication Subscriptions

Use activate subscription to activate a publication subscription and its subscription subset.

Execute activate subscription at the Replication Server that manages the destination database.

Before you execute activate subscription, you must execute define subscription, and the publication subscription status must be DEFINED.

All subscriptions in the publication subscription are activated at the same time.

For example, to activate every subscription in the pubs2_sub publication subscription, enter:
activate subscription sub for publication pub
    with primary at TOKYO_DS.pubs2
    with replicate at SYDNEY_DS.pubs2

See Replication Server Reference Manual > Replication Server Commands for complete syntax and usage guidelines.