Pre 7.0 systems only: database limit is exceeded

DevOps Code ClearCase® versions 4.0 and later include support for VOB database schema (version 54). If you update one or more replicated VOBs in a family to schema version 54, you do not have to update the other replicas in the VOB family immediately. However, you must update all replicas before one of the updated replicas exceeds the database limit of the previous schema (version 53). If you do not, replicas that have not been updated cannot import synchronization update packets from the updated replica.

When this type of import failure occurs, syncreplica output includes a VOB database error, and an error is written to the db log.

The syncreplica output includes an error like the following:

multitool: Error: Error from VOB database: ’’\\vob.setup’’.

The db log includes an error like the following:

09/20/96 10:40:49 db_server(19528): Error: DBMS error in "../db__lock.c" line 79
*** db_VISTA database error -909 - file record limit exceeded
09/20/96 10:40:49 db_server(19528): Error: DBMS error
09/20/96 10:40:49 db_server(19528): Error: db_VISTA error -909

To fix this problem, you must convert all replicas in the family to schema version 54. To display the schema version for a VOB replica, use the cleartool describe vob:vob-tag command. To display the schema version of the version of DevOps Code ClearCase installed on your computer, use the cleartool–ver command.