The qmfix Utility |
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The QM file system is designed to be robust, however, there are situations when power failures, hardware failures or abnormal termination of a process might lead to structural integrity problems within a file.
The qmfix utility can be used to check the structural integrity of a file and, if an error is detected, then apply an automated correction. Although qmfix should always result in the file being usable, there are error situations where data will be lost because it simply was not in the file.
To use qmfix, firstly ensure that no users have the file(s) to be processed open. It is safest to run qmfix when no users are using QM. The qmfix utility is run from the operating system command prompt, not from within QM. The command line is qmfix options pathanme where
qmfix *
Do not run qmfix with the -F option without running it to check for errors first.
Note that qmfix may report that a dynamic has an incorrect load value or record count if the file was not closed properly at a system failure. These errors are unlikely to cause any serious problems and will be corrected by qmfix if the -F option is used and automatically by select operations that complete without any intervening file updates.
No automated error recovery tool can ever be 100% accurate in its decisions about the nature of errors so there is a very small risk that qmfix could make the situation worse. Always backup a file before fixing any errors in it.
Ladybridge Systems aim to provide software of the highest quality. We would be very interested to receive copies of any files that are reported as faulty by qmfix so that we can investigate the cause and improve the resilience of the QM product. |