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error 458: Long transaction aborted

Troubleshooting


Problem

Informix® Dynamic Server™ (IDS): This article provides advice on how to avoid long transactions so that you will no longer get error message "458: Long transaction aborted" or the message "Aborting Long Transactions".

Symptom

Front end application will receive an error. For example, dbaccess will display this message on COMMIT WORK:

458: Long transaction aborted.

A message "Aborting Long Transaction" will be seen in the Message Log "online.log". For example:


10:39:25  Aborting Long Transaction: tx 0xa164a0c username: informix uid: 201

Event alarm class message 22 "Long Transaction Detected" will also be sent to the alarm program.

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Modified date:
16 June 2018

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