Anybody ever seen this message? It's a new one on me. When we try to access this particular file it returns this message. There are no processes running that could be actually deleting this file. The POVF is not changing.The Base Frame MD item for the file is still there as is the DICT RANDOM.FILE.NAME RANDOM.FILE.NAME item that defines the data area. This is on D3 7.5.1/Linux.

[160] File 'RANDOM.FILE.NAME' in the process of being deleted.

Evidently there's a flag set somewhere that says this file is being deletedbut I don't know where. I don't see anything in locks or anywhere I'm familiar with.

Thanks,
Steve

Steve, I have seen that message and I believe you're right. That
message is the result of a bit set in the File Control Block, which is
a frame appended to the back end of all files for such housekeeping.
If you have a file with a mod of 1, there are two frames, the data
frame and the FCB. If the FCB is corrupted, someone in TL support can
use the debugger to reset the bit for you with the debugger. If the
problem is more serious, like a seriously corrupted FCB, then they
will probably recommend copying the data to a new file, deleting or
zapping this file, then renaming the new file to the current name,
thus shuffling your data back into place.

So I think this can be resolved with a call to TL.

HTH
T

Steve Douglas wrote:

Tony,

Thanks for the detail. I was waiting on a callback from Zumasys (who holdsthe support contract on that box & TL on it but I thought I'd ask while I was waiting. Sorry for the wasted effort there. TL zapped the file definitions and we'll recreate it later today. We lost the frames until the next restore but that's not a biggy. Luckily it was in a "rebuildable" file.

Steve

I'd be delighted if TL ever puts out a verb that lets end-users
discard a file and all its frames on their own; detected gfe's
just give me the willies, and migrating the problem file to
a DX'd 'trashcan' account just doesn't seem satisfying enough.
{Maybe restraining it so it doesn't kick in until next time you bring
up D3 would make it easier to design and test...}

"Frank Winans" wrote:

I can write a utility to do that. No one has ever asked for it
before. Of course anything I come up with wouldn't be free. So would
your delight be predicate on whether that functionality was free?

T

"Tony Gravagno" wrote
anything like it. I presume it would take a different copy of the utility
for d3/nt since other platforms (still) have no fsi: , and I live in hope
that it would still work on near-future releases of same-platform d3...

"Frank Winans" <fwinans (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote:

What I have in mind would work in VME only but for all D3 platforms.