Permission required: System administrator. On VMS, OpenVMS privileges.

The lartool command starts the logging, archiving, and recovery utility.

The lartool (logging, archiving, and recovery) utility permits the system administrator to manually abort or commit distributed transactions without bringing down the entire installation. A distributed transaction may need to be manually aborted or committed if it is left in a willing commit state following the loss of the coordinator of the distributed transaction.

This utility can also abort orphaned transactions that cannot be removed by removing the session owner.

The lartool command has the following format: