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Not so fast, young man.  TurboIMAGE does not attach directly to Oracle.
 The TIDB is attached to an Allbase DBE (Data Base Environment.)  This DBE
is then in turn declared as a set of external tables in an Oracle instance.
 There is a job that is running which connects the Oracle instance with the
Allbase DBE.  This is what is keeping the link alive and the file in use.
 My questions are as follows:  Are you sure there are no other jobs on the
system when you do the backup?  Are you sure there are no other files in
use in the TIDB and in the Allbase DBE?  I find this surprising. (In the
depth of my memory, I seem to recall there was a command to stop the
connection and another command to create the connection.  You probably need
to put these in your backup job.)

Finally, it has been a while (4 years) since I have played with the Oracle
connection to Allbase, but I thought at the time it was rather well done,
considering the disparate technologies involved.  I would not be so quick
to condemn Oracle as the troublemaker in this case.  Yes, Oracle was
ultimately connected to the TIDB, but it was through normal IMAGE
attachments.  (Unless things have changed in the last few years.)

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP America, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Joseph Rosenblatt [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Thursday, 28 January, 1999 9:08 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: HELP! PRIV file Problem

Thank you Denys and Joe. That is exactly my problem. I have an Oracle DB
attached to this Image Database, if that's the correct terminology. So its
Oracle strikes again (see the Oracle on HP Systems thread in this weeks
list.) I'll bring down Oracle before I do the back up.