I've been looking throgh the threads to resolve the issus of removing a
backup pending state from a tablespace, but when I tryo I get a message that
the DB is in use or Table space access is not allowed. Any ideas?

WDNealis wrote:

This issue is resolved, I was trying to use Control Center to do a BACKUP,
but I kept getting DB in USE. But the BACKUP from the CLP resolved the issue:

db2 backup database sample

Backup successful. The timestamp for this backup image is : 20061026115802