It must examine each group, looking at the forward and backward links of all the overflow. You could for example, pick a small file, and start a new session and run it on a small file of say 30 groups or 300 groups and time it.
-----Original Message----- From: Holt, Jake <jh...@samsill.com> To: U2 Users List <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 10:23 am Subject: Re: [U2] blink error? Sorry, I hate to keep bombing this with questions especially since this might be a totally unanswerable question, but generally is fixing the file a long process? It's a 268mb file and it's been running for 38 minutes. Is that typical? Just making sure it's not something that should have taken 38 seconds and there is something else getting in the way. Been sitting here since I started it: >UVFIXFILE SHIPMENTS FIX Beginning TRACE of SHIPMENTS/SHIPMENTS. ERROR: Processing Primary group 3786, Overflow group 134428. Invalid group buffer chain at address 0x1068e000. Bad link to overflow buffer 134428. Attempting to unlink buffer at 0x1068e000. -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Israel, John R. Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 11:26 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] blink error? I have not seen that in a long time. Used to occasionally get it in UniVerse on an AIX box. I think it stands for backward link (blink). Simply listing or selecting the file will fail when it hits the offending data. If you can detect the key that is failing, the "simple" solution used to be to try to copy the record to a temp file, delete the original record (which fixes the link), then copy it back. If that fails, you will likely need to run the fix file utility. Again, I have not seen this in 10 years or so, so my memory may be a little off. Good luck! JRI -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Holt, Jake Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 12:20 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] blink error? Never seen this error message before, no sure on the severity but I hope it's easy to fix: File 'E:\dbms\LIVE\DATAFLO/SHIPMENTS/SHIPMENTS': Computed blink of 0x765800 does not match expected blink of 0x765000! Detected within group starting at address 0x1068E000! Any input as to what I need to do to resolve it? Thanks, Jake Holt l samsill l Information Technology Director (817) 536 - 1906 x 217 l jh...@samsill.com www.samsill.com _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
