FATAL - TARA/ABU

Teradata Archive/Recovery Utility Reference

Product
TARA/ABU
Release Number
15.00
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-09-25
dita:id
B035-2412
lifecycle
previous
Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

FATAL

Purpose  

The FATAL parameter provides a runtime option to the ARCMAIN client to reclassify a normally nonfatal error condition as fatal, and abend if the selected message is issued.

Syntax  

where

 

Syntax Element

Definition

errorno

Changes specified errors to a completion code of 12

This is a fatal condition which terminates Teradata ARC.

Usage Notes  

FATAL changes the severity of any Teradata ARC error to FATAL, exit code = 12. For instance, if ARC0802 is specified as a fatal error, Teradata ARC immediately exits at ARC0802.

In the next example, if an ARC0802 I/O error or ARC1218 warning message occurs, FATAL allows the immediate termination of Teradata ARC rather than having the program run to completion. Either normally nonfatal error condition is interpreted as fatal, and the program terminates:

   ARCMAIN FATAL=(802,1218)

The FATAL option allows stopping the job immediately when one copy of the dump fails. This ensures quick recovery action when only one good copy exists of the archive dump.

ARC1218 warns that a problem table will be skipped and the next table processed. If immediate termination is preferable to continuing, the FATAL parameter is invoked.

Delimiters, such as =, are mandatory.

Please see Table 18 on page 156 for a list of the Teradata ARC error codes with their default severity levels.