Is this problem unique to us? Probably not. It's related to a client problem that showed up about two weeks earlier. An error about deleting entries from the Expiring.Objects table (or something close to that). Check out all of your recent ANR9999Ds.
In any event, this error represented a 'corruption' in the database and you can't upgrade a database in this condition. I did try to delete the account in the hope that it would take the bad whatever with it, but that, too, failed. The audit is required to fix this situation so that we can upgrade. If you aren't seeing any errors, you probably won't have a problem. I always go into an upgrade prepared - backups, migrate everything off disk, etc., so that I can recover on a moment's notice. Having recovered WDSF/ADSM/TSM databases *way* too many times in the past, it's a lot easier now than it has been. Since I don't have the luxury of a test system, I approach every upgrade as a recovery 'opportunity'. Gretchen Thiele Princeton University
