Great. Thanks for all the feedback. I've confirmed some of my long standing suspicions and learned some new things too. "Gibson Nichols" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:9ke9ri$pft3@eccws12.dearborn.ford.com... > > A programmer asked me if doing an ABORTJOB on a program will cause a broken > chain in an Image database. > > Also we've seen cases where one record out of two will be on a database. We > suspect that the second record didn't make it because of an ABORTJOB. In > this case I was attempting to tell the programmer about the concept of > logical transactions and using DBBEGIN and DBEND. The programs are not > written with the concepts of logical transactions. They just write one > record then a second. > > So, does using ABORTJOB cause IMAGE problems? > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *