Under rare circumstances, a failed database cannot be restarted. Database administrators need to examine the database, troubleshoot, and fix the issue, before restarting the database. Database administrators must run most diagnostic tools in single-user mode, which creates a bottleneck for disaster recovery in very large databases.

In this release, to expedite diagnosing issues, a new enhancement lets certain disgnostic utilities run concurrently. Running utilities concurrently while the database is stopped reduces the cost of checking for database corruption in a disaster scenario.

The following OpenEdge utilities support read-only connections:

Read-only database connections allow for any number of connections at once, limited by the maximum number of connections.