Now I'm really scared.  We have an 8 GB database and I can't possibly have
the server down that long.  This is our most active server.  I can't start
this thing until I have a clearer idea of how long it's going to take.  The
VM ADSM server administrator here thought it would take about 2 days - now
I'm not so sure she knows what she's talking about.

I'm going to contact IBMLINK again and see what they say.  There seems to be
a lot of open questions about this.

Can the AUDITDB FIX=YES process be stopped once it's been started?




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I have to agree with Richard. I currently have a 9gig data base and I have 4
volumes in error. IBM has quoted me a time of 1 day per gig to run AUDIT DB
FIX=YES for us that is just not possible, ADSM unavailable for 9 days!!!!. We
are waitig for a more realistic solution from IBM.

 Brian




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>IBM has suggested that probably the database is corrupt and that we
>should do an AUDIT DB FIX=YES.  Sigh............
>We're going to do that this weekend.

It will likely mean having your server unavailable for most of the
weekend.  The ADSM product is long overdue for online auditing of
the database - it should not be necessary to take the whole facility
down for days to detect and correct an enduring inconsistency in a
small part of the database.  That's ridiculous.  ADSM should be a
far more sophisticated product than that.
     Richard Sims, BU