The Metadata Server may fail to recover from an ERROR during initialization with Workunit Journaling enabled.

Beginning in SAS^® 9.1.3, customers can optionally choose to queue updates to a high-speed workunit journal file before updating repositories on disk. The following link documents WorkUnit Journaling:

http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp?_topic=bisag.hlp/a003141750.htm

When an I/O occurs, and the system is restarted, the updates that were queued will be applied. Currently, on some Non-Byte-Swapped systems, the recovery process fails with messages similar to the following:

   20050626:13.10.16.42: 00000002: :SYSTEM@: The I/O subsystem has
   returned error message 'ERROR: Variable number 0 is not on file
   TMP000.DBSCHEMA.'. 20050626:13.10.16.42: 00000002: :SYSTEM@: OMS
   Workunit Journal commit task is now terminating as a result of
   previously logged errors.

NOTE: When the Metadata Server is configured to use WorkUnit Journaling, the ALERTEMAIL and ALERTEMAILATTACHMENT options must be set and tested using the ALERTEMAILTEST option.

See the above link for documentation on the ALERT EMAIL options.

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Operating System and Release Information

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for this issue is available at:

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at :