Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:43:31 -0600 Howard Brazee <[email protected]>
wrote:
:>On 15 Sep 2009 06:59:56 -0700, [email protected] (Roach, Dennis ,
:>N-GHG) wrote:
:>>> Reconstruct what? I thought 97 meant the open statement was
:>>> successful and file integrity was verified. So the file is OK, the
:>>> open is OK.
:>>> What am I missing?
:>>That depends on how important data integrity is to you.
:>>97 indicates that the last user of the file did not close it properly.
:>>The mechanics of the file (index/CI/CA) structure is valid.
:>>It does not insure that all of the buffers were written to the file when it
was not closed.
:>>I.E. - you may be missing data.
:>So you're saying I cannot trust that "file integrity is verified". It
:>may be lying. Have you come across this happening?
Lying?
For example, file is opened for output, application puts a record and abends
before the data is firmed. Index and data is in synch, but the new data is not
there.
Wait a minute. "Before the data is firmed"? What do you mean? How
does this happen?
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