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Special Situations

If your car is involved in an accident, or if it is not performing efficiently, it needs testing and repairs. Likewise, special situations indicate a need for examination of your database. Several conditions are likely to cause physical integrity errors in a database:

• Improper recovery from program, system, or hardware failures
• Malfunctions in the operation of a disk drive, disk controller, or other hardware
• Improper use of the CA IDMS utility IDMSBCF, FIX PAGE function

If you know one of these conditions has occurred, you can use CA IDMS/DB Audit to search for problems before running application programs.

Even if there has not been a known failure in the system, results of application programs sometimes indicate broken chains or other physical integrity errors. If an application program terminates abnormally or if the output from a program indicates broken chains, CA IDMS/DB Audit can find and correct most of the physical integrity errors.