An enhancement has been requested.
Index Block point sequence corruption breaks the idxcheck utility by causing it to either loop indefinitely if the recid sequence corruption is pointing backwards to a previously scanned recid, or will cause it to skip past recids completely if pointed forward towards the end of the index. This error prevents the utility from ever being able to complete the scan all the way through the index. This issue has been fixed for
most cases in that IDXCHECK will
skip over them and start processing the next index so that one can find out which indexes need to be rebuilt without exhausting the IDXCHECK error limit on the same index:
Index corruption causes IDXCHECK to loop on the 8781 error It was determined that the Progress Product is functioning as designed.
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