NetBase for MPE Reference Guide

Appendix B
B-2
Technical Support Tips
This section lists commonly asked questions on the following topics, with answers and tips from
Quest technical support:
• SHOW POST
• versions
• NFA
• NBSYNC,VERIFY
• MPE builds, purges and renames.
SHOW POST
QUESTION:
What does it mean when I see ??? in the TYPE column of the SHOW POST Node# command, and
what should I do?
ANSWER:
The ??? in the Type column of a SHOW POST Node# command indicates that NBPOST (the posting
process) encountered a problem opening the shadow copy of a file. For example:
*> SHOW POST 7
S Q D
Time Stamp of Last Y U I
File Type Update Record Processed N E S
PAYDB.DATA.PAYROLL ??? 0 06/01/92 10:39 am - Q -
This display indicates that NBPOST was unable to open the shadow file. The posting process knows
there are transactions for this file, but for some reason is unable to open the file. Also notice that
the QUE flag has been set to Q, which indicates the transactions for this file are being queued. When
you see this display, you can examine the $STDLIST of the current NetBase background job to find
out what error was encountered by the posting process (error message is also displayed to the
console):
:RUN NBSPOOL.PUB.NETBASE
O> T $,MGR.NETBASE,S=O
O> L LAST-10/LAST
57 153 12:54:05 NBP07/WARNING 23: UNABLE TO OPEN DATABASE PAYDB.DATA.PAYROLL
58 153 12:54:06 NBP07/BAD PASSWORD - GRANTS ACCESS TO NOTHING (DBERR -21)
59 153 12:54:06 NBP07/STARTING POST QUEUE FOR PAYDB.DATA.PAYROLL