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DB00902W

WARNING/DANGER, OPEN BASE FOUND RESET (nnnn)

Reason:

A database that is open for update or read-only is being closed or reopened. The database ID is displayed in the message text.

The definition on disk in the Directory indicates that the base has been reset. The reset could be the result of a DBUTLTY RESET or the restart processing done as part of Multi-User Facility enable processing. This is a potentially dangerous condition because memory and disk information cannot be synchronized and might not agree.

The situation can exist without problems, however. For example, it could be caused by a restart process on a different Multi-User Facility reading a table within a database while the current system is updating or reading the same database. If no Index INIT, data INIT, or data LOAD function was done between the DBUTLTY RESET or Multi-User Facility restart processing and the current time, no problem exists. If one of those things occurred, however, differing problems may soon follow.

Action:

If the database is open for update and one of the mentioned utilities was done, all current users of this database need to be closed and the utility process redone.