DETAILS VERIFY FILE now has a STATUS argument that returns information about the database integrity to a global variable: If the STATUS option is specified then batch execution continues even if the database is corrupt. EXAMPLE PROGRAM VERIFY FILE STATUS=global_var global_var then contains 0 = Database is OK 1 = Verify produced warning messages 2 = Verify shows correctable errors 3 = Verify shows non-correctable errors. WORKAROUND The old way to do that was to use SET OUTPUT, verify the database and then read the output file in PQL to find error & warning counts.