onmode and system shutdown

We have a weekly shutdown procedure that requires us to reboot one of our production machines that runs informix. Recently we had a slight problem; there was an index rebuild occuring when the automated reboot script kicked in. The system shut down, and on reboot Online went into recovery mode for about four hours. My question: is there a straightforward way to determine what the Online 7.12 engine is doing? Some option to onstat, for example, that would allow a script to intelligently opt for or against shutting down the informix system? My next question: After giving an onmode -ky command, is there any way to "undo" that and tell the engine that we dont want it to go offline after all? (We found that it is possible for the engine to go into quiescent mode for quite a while before actually going offline... ) Thanks, Jeff Anderson Service Merchandise (thanks Mark for letting me use this account)