Re: problems with table locking

shiggins@mindspring.com (Sheila Higgins) wrote: >I have two questions. I am running informix online and I have some >tables locked (I queried the syslocks table in sysmaster). The first >question is how do I remove the locks? The second questions is is >this why whenever I attempt to exit the dbaccess utility, it hangs? >(I have several databases; only 2 of them have locks. Yet dbaccess >hangs whenever I exit regardless of which database I have accessed). > > More Information: There were applications that ran against the locked tables that terminated abnormally, and did not release the locks for the tables. My error is #252, ISAM error 113. 'finderr 252' refers to two utilities called 'bcheck' and 'secheck', neither of which I have. I'm assuming that there is an equivalent tools for releasing locks on online tables. Thanks to anyone who can help. You can either post or send email to shiggins@mindspring.com.