Wednesday, January 21, 2009
FW: Auspicious Day to start work in 2009
The chart below tabulates the auspicious state of the days during Chinese New Year 2009 for each zodiac sign. Well, different masters might have their own way of predicting the same thing. Who knows who is correct, yeah?
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Giant Tomato Fight in China
15 Tons of Saucy Goo
Maybe you're familiar with the massive tomato fight in the Spanish town of Bunol - - well, now China has its own saucy fiesta.
Maybe you're familiar with the massive tomato fight in the Spanish town of Bunol - - well, now China has its own saucy fiesta.
Condom With Tape Measure
Chocolate Bath
Allergic babies
By Dr M. YADAV
Allergy is becoming an increasingly prevalent problem in many countries, especially among our young.
ALLERGIC diseases represent a major and increasing health problem in industrialised countries. Over the past five decades, the prevalence of allergic diseases has increased dramatically and the incidence has doubled in the last 20 years in most industrialised countries.
In some countries, for example Australia and Sweden, 40% of young children have allergic disorders.
In Malaysia, about 30% of young children are likely to develop allergic disorders in the first five years of life.
The most common allergic conditions in children and infants are food allergies, eczema, asthma and allergic rhinitis. Allergies are often life-long and although treatable, they tend to recur if the triggers are not strictly avoided. Some food allergies spontaneously improve within three years but are often replaced by respiratory allergies. Thus, it makes sense to try to prevent the development of allergies in early life than trying to treat them later.
Hence, there is great interest to identify the risk factors associated with the development of allergic disorders in early life and modify them to reduce subsequent risks for development of allergy.
Many studies show that breast milk decreases the incidence of allergic eczema compared to cow’s milk.
Risk factors for allergy
The development and appearance of allergic symptoms depends on poorly-understood complex interactions between genetic and environmental factors.
It is evident historically that changing environmental factors have played a major role for the increasing trends in allergy and asthma. Obviously, we have some control over the environmental risk factors but we have practically no control over genetic factors, which have an equal role in the development of allergic disorders.
Families often ask how allergy can be prevented in future offspring. The American Academy of Pediatrics published a clinical report in 2008 with recommendations for those infants at high risk of developing allergic disease. Avoidance of the major risk factors could reduce or prevent the development of allergic disease in most infants. For the avoidance measures to work, the first two years of life are critical and the measures must be applied before the development of allergy in the neonate.
These recommendations do not apply to babies already having food allergy. The major risk factors for the development of allergy in infancy are:
· Strong family history of allergic disease (both parents or one parent plus one sibling with allergy) may significantly increase the risk for allergy in the newborn.
· Exclusive breast feeding is desirable for least four months compared with feeding with intact cow’s milk. Many studies show that breast milk decreases the incidence of allergic eczema compared to cow’s milk.
Partially hydrolysed whey formula, which is hypoallergenic (reduced ability to stimulate and induce an IgE-mediated immune response) formula is preferred as supplementary feed for babies. The hypoallergenic formula is the preferred feed for the baby when the mother is unable to breastfeed. There is no role for soy-based formula in allergy prevention.
· Solid foods should not be introduced before ages four to six months. Early introduction of solid foods increases the risk, but delayed introduction of solid foods beyond six months provides no advantage.
· Exposure as a child or infant to high levels of house dust-mite allergens (allergens are substances, usually proteins, that cause allergy) increases risk to respiratory allergies. Anti-dust mite barrier encasing of mattress and pillows may provided some protection. Regular use of anti-dust mite sprays to reduce the level of dust mite allergens in the home environment is desirable. These procedures are specifically important for Malaysia, which has high dust-mite allergens levels in the home environment.
· Exposure to some indoor mammalian pets (e.g. cat) increases risk in the baby. Keep the pets strictly outside the house away from the baby’s play area and bedroom or remove the pets until the baby is older.
· No smoking should be permitted in the house during pregnancy and lactation. Passive exposure to cigarette smoke during pregnancy or infancy increases the risk for allergy significantly in early life.
· Passive exposures to cigarette smoke during pregnancy or infancy increases the risk for allergy significantly in early life.
· Exposure to environmental pollution as a child or infant (e.g. high levels of car exhaust fumes or fumes from gas heaters) increases the risk.
Maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation The earliest possible nutritional influence on allergy in the infant is the diet of the pregnant mother.
It is well known that food allergens in the diet of the mother can appear in the circulation and be transmitted to the amniotic fluid during pregnancy or breast milk during lactation. The foetus in late pregnancy (when the immune system is immature but functional) can be sensitised (develop the capacity to react to allergens on subsequent exposure) to the food allergens present in the amniotic fluid. In families with a genetic predisposition, there is a good chance that the newborn, when re-exposed to the provoking foods (e.g. cow’s milk), will react with symptoms (e.g. diarrhoea, vomiting, colic, eczema) to the sensitising foods. In families without a genetic allergic-background, the sensitised baby will not react to the provoking allergens.
Prior to 2008, the American Academy of Pediatrics had recommended avoidance of peanuts, cow’s milk, soy milk, fish and eggs during pregnancy and lactation to reduce the risk for allergy to these foods in the baby.
However, in January 2008, the American Academy of Pediatrics reversed their position on maternal avoidance of specific foods. The current position, based on evidence from large number of research studies, does not support maternal avoidance of allergenic foods during pregnancy or lactation. Moreover, maternal avoidance of specific nutrition during pregnancy may not be conducive for the healthy growth of the baby.
Low levels of maternal dietary food-allergens present in breast milk may cause allergic symptoms (e.g. eczema) in exclusively breastfed babies. Our studies in Malaysia show that exclusively breastfed babies with skin symptoms are mostly reactive to cow’s milk and egg white proteins. However, in some babies, additional allergens such as wheat, peanuts, soy bean, sesame seeds, banana, chicken meat, garlic and many others were also contributory to the development of allergic eczema. In all these babies, there was a family history of allergy.
The continued breastfeeding and maternal avoidance of the provoking foods is normally advised when the infant is less than four to six months. In older infants, breast milk can be stopped and the weaning diet should exclude the provoking foods.
In all such cases it is essential to identify the provoking food allergens through blood allergy tests on the baby based on the maternal diet. Any delay in seeking allergy services may potentially lead to adverse clinical outcome due to unacceptable diagnostic oversight.
Food allergy in Malaysian children Investigations into food allergy in Malaysia were pioneered by Dr N. Iyngkaran and his colleagues, including myself, in the mid-70s at the then University Hospital.
At that time, chronic diarrhoea in infants was a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In a series of experimental studies, it was demonstrated that cow’s milk was the primary cause of the chronic gastroenteritis diarrhoea in young infants. These infants suffered from symptoms of vomiting, diarrhoea and colic. Moreover, the associated lactose intolerance was recognised as secondary to the intestinal mucosal damage inflicted by the cow’s milk allergic reaction. This was an important contribution because for the first time the relationship between cow’s milk allergy, intestinal mucosal damage, lactose intolerance and clinical symptoms became clear. The group went on to demonstrate that many other proteins, such as egg protein and soy protein, which caused allergic reactions in young infants and children, were also responsible for marked intestinal mucosal aberrations.
One interesting study performed by the group showed that about 40% of infants with cow’s milk allergy developed allergic reaction to soy milk even if the baby had not been exposed to soy products previously. Only in recent years has it become clear that cow’s milk casein shares common allergens with soy protein and hence infants sensitised to casein will eventually react to soy if it is used as a substitute in infants allergic to cow’s milk.
Adverse reactions to cow’s milk are frequently seen in the first year of life in infants on bottle feed. Cow’s milk allergy is present in 3-5% of infants and 85% will outgrow the milk allergy by the third year.
However, in some children, particularly those with high titres of IgE antibody and severe symptoms, the milk allergy will persist longer, usually into adolescence and sometimes into adulthood.
The symptoms of cow’s milk allergy usually starts in the first weeks of life. The main symptoms of cow’s milk allergy are:
gastrointestinal in about half the infants; skin eczema in two-third of infants; and respiratory problems in about quarter of infants. In many infants, all three symptoms may be present.
Young children with eczema are at a higher risk of developing food allergy, particularly those infants and toddlers whose skin disease is more severe or recalcitrant to therapy. Generally, the younger the patient and the more severe the eczema, the more likely food allergy is a causative factor.
Parental perceptions with regards to food allergy in their children are notoriously inaccurate. Parents often have very strongly held beliefs that certain foods cause a variety of symptoms, many of which are inconsistent with an immune-mediated process.
In fact, when the diagnosis of IgE-mediated food allergy are performed in an established laboratory using approved allergy tests, only about 40% of patients’ histories of food-induced reactions can be verified. Thus it is very important to conduct an allergy test at a centre managed by professionals.
Food allergy in children is most likely to manifest between one and three years. In Malaysian infants less than one year old, the foods causing allergy in order of importance are cow’s milk, soy milk, chicken eggs and fish.
On the other hand, in children more than two years old, the foods causing allergy in order of importance are shellfish (prawns/shrimp), cow’s milk, chicken eggs, wheat, soy and peanuts. In 70% of children, chicken egg allergy lasts until the twelfth year.
Peanut allergy tends to be long-lasting, with 20% infants resolving by the ninth year, but in the rest, it may be life-long. Avoidance of the provoking foods is essential for success in treating food allergy.
The only objective method of measuring IgE antibodies is to use technology that is calibrated against established reference preparations. The CAP RAST blood test is scientifically considered superior to any other allergy test for the detection of the provoking allergen in the infant’s diet. It is a quantitative test with each run incorporating controls which are standardised against WHO standards. The blood allergy test is not affected by medications, including anti-histamines.
Elimination of the food allergen is the only proven effective therapy at this time. Strict dietary avoidance is generally recommended once a food allergy is diagnosed.
If the mother is breastfeeding, she must also strictly eliminate the causal foods from her diet. Clinical tolerance can develop over time, more commonly to some foods (milk, egg, soy, wheat) over others (peanut, tree nuts, seafood). In time, the baby will outgrow the allergy brought on by the provoking food (e.g. cow’s milk or chicken eggs) and show no food-specific IgE-antibody. Only then can the problematic food be successfully reintroduced into the diet of the child without worrying about the development of adverse reactions. In rare cases, some food (e.g. chicken egg, shrimp/prawn, bird’s nest soup) may cause severe systemic life-threatening reaction (called anaphylaxis) within minutes of ingestion of the provoking food. The symptoms appear rapidly, usually with minutes of exposure to the provoking food. The symptoms include: (1) skin or mucosal involvement (e.g. generalised hives or swelling of oral mucosa), (2) respiratory compromise (e.g. dyspnea, wheeze), (3) persistent gastrointestinal symptoms (e.g. vomiting), (4) hypotension (e.g. hypotonia, fainting).
Epinephrine, which is dispensed in special syringes called Epipen, is clearly the treatment of choice for anaphylaxis. Following epinephrine treatment, the individual should be rushed to the hospital.
Certainly, having signs of hypotension (even without accompanying symptoms) is an indication for epinephrine administration, particularly in a child with known food allergy. It is important to identify the provoking foods through food allergy tests if any one has had this experience of anaphylaxis since such episodes tend to reappear in reactive individuals. Avoiding the trigger resolves the problem.
Food allergy in infancy predicts respiratory allergy in mid-childhood.
Food allergy in infants less than one year old predicts the development of respiratory allergy and asthma in children five to eight years old.
There are ways for physicians to increase the predictive value of the allergy test. One factor is the level of specific IgE antibody in serum, which can affect the presence, persistence and severity of the allergic disease. Thus the risk of developing asthma increases with increasing specific antibody levels.
A sensitised infant with specific IgE antibody to food allergens (e.g. cow’s milk, chicken egg) and/or aeroallergens (e.g. cat dander, dust mite) summing up to a total of 0.5 kilounits per litre (kU/L) has 20% risk of developing persistent wheezing/asthma, but if the summed antibody level is greater than 10 kU/L in early life, the predictive value for wheezing/asthma increases to 90% at five years of age.
This definitely calls for quantification of IgE antibody levels if allergy is suspected in the young baby for assessing the severity of the disease. Allergy is not a simple yes or no phenomenon of allergy tests. Recent studies show that prediction and diagnosis of allergy needs to be based on several factors, including quantitative of IgE antibody levels.
Conclusion
In Malaysia, food allergies in infancy are increasing rapidly. In young infants, the most common foods causing allergies are cow’s milk and chicken eggs. The next commonest are soy milk, wheat, fish and peanuts.
In older children, shellfish (e.g. shrimp/prawns, crab), in addition to the other foods noted in infancy, is most important.
The majority of children with food allergy in the first year of life will develop respiratory allergy to house dust mites during mid-childhood. Thus, early measures to prevent the risk for development of allergy are desirable.
For further information, e-mail starhealth@thestar.com.my. The information provided is for educational and communication purposes only and it should not be construed as personal medical advice. Information published in this article is not intended to replace, supplant or augment a consultation with a health professional regarding the reader’s own medical care. The Star does not give any warranty on accuracy, completeness, functionality, usefulness or other assurances as to the content appearing in this column. The Star disclaims all responsibility for any losses, damage to property or personal injury suffered directly or indirectly from reliance on such information.
Singapore high-end properties likely to keep dropping in price
SINGAPORE: After two years of double-digit growth, prices for luxury properties in Singapore came crashing down last year and analysts are predicting another sharp drop in the year to come.
In a recent report by the real estate agency CB Richard Ellis estimated that 55 percent of the 2,200 luxury units built in the city-state between 2006 and 2008 remained unsold as of November while, in another review, the Swiss bank UBS pointed out that units in two high-profile developments, Ardmore II and Scotts Square, recently sold at 20 percent less than their launching prices.
Also, there has been talk of the first default on a house in the upscale waterfront development of Sentosa Cove, which, if true, would underscore the financial pressures facing even wealthy investors.
Signs that the local property bubble was bursting started to appear in late 2007, especially in the over-heated high-end market, and last year the number of transactions slowed considerably, with fewer than 4,400 new private homes changing hands, compared with a record 14,811 in 2007.
Official preliminary estimates by the state's Urban Redevelopment Authority point to an overall price decline of 4.3 percent in 2008, a relatively minor correction when compared with the 31.2 percent increase in 2007 - but the fourth-quarter decline alone was 5.7 percent on an annual basis, the largest drop in a decade.
(Singapore's economy technically went into recession in 2008, although it still grew an estimated 1.5 percent on a year-on-year basis.)
Property analysts point out that the market's fall has not been uniform, with the luxury end registering much sharper losses in value - as much as 35 percent in prime districts.
Foo Sze Ming, an analyst at OCBC bank, said he believes that high-end properties are still the most vulnerable part of the market because there are so many unsold units and there are growing fears that buyers may default.
"We are expecting a 15 to 20 percent decline in high-end property prices in 2009," on top of the 2008 drops, he said.
Tay Huey Ying, director of research and consultancy at the Colliers International agency, had a similarly bleak outlook.
"Properties in this segment are likely to be the hardest hit in this downturn, with prices potentially being depressed by an estimated 15 percent to 20 percent for the whole of 2009," she said.
Many property analysts say they are concerned that there was a sword of Damocles hanging over the Singapore property market.
During the Asian financial crisis of 1997, a Deferred Payment Scheme was introduced that allowed buyers to make down payments of 10 to 20 percent and defer the remaining balance until the property was completed, typically two or three years later. Approximately 10,450 homes bought on deferred payments are to be completed this year and in 2010, stoking fears that cash-strapped buyers could start dumping them before the balances are due.
Foo said there might be defaults but that the risks also might be overstated.
"I do not think that default risk is widespread among all buyers," he said. "It is likely that speculators and investors will be the group that is more likely to default and genuine buyers who are buying properties to stay in them are less likely to default, in my opinion."
Some analysts still were putting on a brave face.
"Singapore's midterm economic prospects are fundamentally sound, being well supported by the ongoing economic restructuring works," Tay said.
The city-state does have a lot to offer medium- to long-term investors, given its increasing importance as a major financial center, said Christopher Fossick, managing director for Southeast Asia at the Jones Lang LaSalle agency. As proof, he pointed to the recent report commissioned by Mayor Boris Johnson of London that said the rising status of regional hubs like Singapore and Dubai was threatening London's position as the world's financial capital.
Fossick also noted that Singapore had no capital gains tax on real estate, the property market was highly transparent for foreign investors, and financial gains could be easily repatriated.
"Demand for the residential market is there. It might be standing on the sidelines for now because of the uncertain outlook, but we can see there is very strong demand," Fossick said, pointing out that household debt was relatively low in Singapore and the household savings rate was 45 percent, "miles away from those in the U.S. or U.K." Savings rates are 11 percent in the United States and 14 percent in Britain.
Fossick believed the city-state could soon start to benefit from property investors scaling back in other markets.
"Foreign funds that have played a major role in property developments in the country are looking at the market and telling us they would like to make some investment in the residential property market in 2009 and 2010," he said.
"They are looking at the opportunity of buying land or buying several units from a developer to rent them out and get the immediate yield," he added. "They're also looking to coming in at the development stage with existing developers."
Memory pill that could help with exam revision could be available soon
A "memory pill" that could aid exam revision and help to prevent people forgetting important anniversaries may soon be available over the counter.
By Lucy Cockcroft
Memory-enhancing pills, created to treat Alzheimer's disease, could be redeveloped as a 'lifestyle pill' to combat memory loss and help exam revision.
The medicine has been designed originally to help treat Alzheimer's disease, but could be adapted and licensed for sale in a weaker form within the next few years.
One brand of memory-enhancing pill is being developed by the multinational company AstraZeneca in collaboration with Targacept, an American company, while Epix Pharmaceuticals, also from the US, is developing another.
Both have "cognitive-enhancing effects" which are aimed at treating patients with age-related memory loss.
Steven Ferris, a neurologist and former committee member of the Food and Drug Administration in the US, has predicted that a milder version will be available for healthy consumers as a "lifestyle pill" available over the counter.
Dr Ferris said: "My view is that one could gain approval, provided you showed the drugs to be effective and safe. It could be a huge market."
There is anecdotal evidence that mind-improving drugs are already being taken in Britain by healthy users.
Provigil, used to treat narcolepsy, is being taken by some students to help them stay awake, while Adderall XR and Ritalin, treatments for attention deficit disorder, are being used to help promote concentration.
A spokesman Adderall XR said: "We get a lot of calls from college campuses asking about it.
"There are risks though. It can raise blood pressure, people shouldn't do it."
The Department of Health said it was not illegal to buy the medicines over the internet, but it was not recommended.
Barbara Sahakian, professor of clinical neuropsychology at Cambridge, said: "It's hard to quantify the scale of the phenomenon but it's definitely catching on.
"The reality is we're not always at our best. After being up at night looking after the kids or travelling, many people would love to have something to sharpen them up. It's not taboo to drink Red Bull. The principle with cognition enhancers is not so different."
UDF and SP in IBM RPM
IBM Rational Portfolio Manager (assuming version 7.1.1.2) is using Dynamic Linking Library (DLL) as its implementation for some of the database objects, namely stored procedure (SP) and user defined functions (UDF). More precisely the file name of this dll is IBMRPM.dll and it resides in two locations, i.e. ${DB2_INSTALL_ROOT}\FUNCTION\IBMRPM.dll and ${DB2_INSTALL_ROOT}\FUNCTION\unfenced\IBMRPM.dll.
During RPM installations/migrations, the process will define the linkage between SP/UDF to the appropriate methods in the dll and this piece of information is stored in SYSIBM.SYSROUTINES table's IMPLEMENTATION column.
The problem with IBM RPM installation is that it hardcoded the directory information in IMPLEMENTATION column. This shall causes portability issue when you desire to move the system to another environment where the ${DB2_INSTALL_ROOT} is not consistent with each other. For example, your initial RPM machine might have DB2 at drive C then the latest environment put it in drive E.
In such a setting, after you restored the database successfully into the new environment, you shall get alerts and some errors in the application server's logs specifying database errors with SQLSTATE 42724 REASON CODE 4.
You maybe be tempted to update the path information directly in SYSIBM but the column is only updateable through a proper DROP/CREATE PROCEDURE or ALTER PROCEDURE and in this case the number of objects to change is way too many even if you plan to write a batch script for it.
A shortcut to this problem is to copy the IBMRPM.dll and create the necessary dummy folders that reflect the original path information and paste them there. This works but it's not recommended because it might causes complication next time when doing patching or upgrading of RPM.
The best way to resolve this is to reuse some of the scripts from the installer.
Note: Please do this at your own risk. Backup everything first.
Step 1: Setting Up Environment
Step 2: Recreate SP/UDF
You might want to recycle your DB2 process to get a fresh start.
During RPM installations/migrations, the process will define the linkage between SP/UDF to the appropriate methods in the dll and this piece of information is stored in SYSIBM.SYSROUTINES table's IMPLEMENTATION column.
The problem with IBM RPM installation is that it hardcoded the directory information in IMPLEMENTATION column. This shall causes portability issue when you desire to move the system to another environment where the ${DB2_INSTALL_ROOT} is not consistent with each other. For example, your initial RPM machine might have DB2 at drive C then the latest environment put it in drive E.
In such a setting, after you restored the database successfully into the new environment, you shall get alerts and some errors in the application server's logs specifying database errors with SQLSTATE 42724 REASON CODE 4.
You maybe be tempted to update the path information directly in SYSIBM but the column is only updateable through a proper DROP/CREATE PROCEDURE or ALTER PROCEDURE and in this case the number of objects to change is way too many even if you plan to write a batch script for it.
A shortcut to this problem is to copy the IBMRPM.dll and create the necessary dummy folders that reflect the original path information and paste them there. This works but it's not recommended because it might causes complication next time when doing patching or upgrading of RPM.
The best way to resolve this is to reuse some of the scripts from the installer.
Note: Please do this at your own risk. Backup everything first.
Step 1: Setting Up Environment
To do this, open up an instance of DB2CMD.
Change Directory (CD) to ${RPM_INSTALLER}\Database\DB2\Windows\CSP
If you are using DB2 V9, Please set the following environment variables using:
SET DB2TEMPDIR=${DB2_INSTALL_ROOT}\
Note: Please make sure the above path end with a slash (\)
Then
SET RPMDLLNAME=IBMRPM
You will then login to DB2 by using the user name where the name is the schema name of the objects. For example, DB2ADMIN. If you are not sure what name is that, you can always open up the control center and browse the list of stored procedures and check the schema name column. A common procedure is the SP_LOGON.
db2 connect to MYRPM user db2admin using your_password
Step 2: Recreate SP/UDF
Run the drop_sp.bat by using the following command:
drop_sp.bat > drop_sp.log
Check the drop_sp.log to verify the completion.
Run the create_sp.bat by using the following command:
create_sp.bat > create_sp.log
Check the create_sp.log to verify the completion.
Step 3: Bind packages
Because the dropping of previous SP/UDF invalidated package objects used by RPM, you need to bind them again. Open bindall.bat using notepad or other editor. Copy the for loop command and paste it in a new file. Name the file bindall2.bat. Change the value for QUALIFIER to DB2ADMIN. Save it and run the following command using the previous DB2 Command Window session.
bindall2.bat > bindall2.log
Check the bindall2.log to verify the completion.
You might want to recycle your DB2 process to get a fresh start.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Home Baked CNY Cookies
Careful if you plan to buy these delicious yet potentially "interesting" home made cookies. One of the cookie jars Mrs. Nerdy bought comes with a pet which might unwittingly be part of your snacks. LOL. Will return it for another jar.
Torturing this Pest!
To reward people who regularly visit my nerdy blog, please check out the 4th rat I've caught. Disgusting ya. :-p
Previous Post about Mouse Killing
Previous Post about Mouse Killing
Result of Weeds Killing - After 2 Weeks
The result is rather satisfying. Remember the trick to kill weeds is to apply appropriate dose of the herbicide. If overdosed, the leaves will die before it transports the venom to the root, on the other side the roots shall resist the poison if underdosed.
Previous Post on Weeds Killing
Friday, January 16, 2009
Portfolio B @ 15-January-2009
Eddy said: Boring market as usual. Nikkei slumped almost 5% in the afternoon session. Looks like the bear is going to dominate the sentiment till some bullish catalyst releases in the air.
Transaction Costs are excluded.
4000 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 1.67, Market Price = RM1.11, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM2240)
10000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.190, Market Price = RM0.145, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM450)
Realized Profit/(Loss)
1. Uchitec (RM340)
2. IPower (RM300)
3. E&O RM320
4. E&O (RM40)
5. E&O RM165
5. E&O RM50
Note:
Bought 4000 unit of Pelikan @1.13
Bought 3000 unit of Pelikan @1.12
Transaction Costs are excluded.
4000 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 1.67, Market Price = RM1.11, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM2240)
10000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.190, Market Price = RM0.145, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM450)
Realized Profit/(Loss)
1. Uchitec (RM340)
2. IPower (RM300)
3. E&O RM320
4. E&O (RM40)
5. E&O RM165
5. E&O RM50
Note:
Bought 4000 unit of Pelikan @1.13
Bought 3000 unit of Pelikan @1.12
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Finance the Islamic way at small US bank
DETROIT: Big financial institutions have been battered by mortgages gone bad. But a tiny Michigan bank is getting attention in the industry by turning a profit on loans without even charging interest.
Its specialty: financial products that comply with Islamic law.
That means no collecting interest, no short selling and no contracts that are considered exceedingly risky.
It also rules out some of the activity that got Western finance in trouble - subprime mortgages, credit default swaps and the like.
"When you look at the economic crisis we're in, if you were to follow Islamic or Sharia financing, you couldn't have this crisis,'' said John Sickler, corporate director for the bank, University Islamic Financial Corp. in Ann Arbor.
Islamic finance operations aren't prohibited from making a profit.
University Bank President and Chairman Stephen Lange Ranzini, standing, talks with banking consultant Nabeel Shahid at the bank in Ann Arbor, Michigan - AP
Far from it.
Instead, banks that comply with Islamic law, or Sharia, earn money from fees that are part of the cost of the loan, some paid up front and some over time.
University Islamic Financial has two types of financing, one called a marked-up installment sale and the other a lease-to-purchase sale.
Fees in both cases are comparable to interest payments in traditional loans, bank officials say.
For example: A seller who bought a house for $100,000 could sell it for $120,000 or even $300,000, provided the buyer agrees it's a fair deal.
The home could be sold on an installment plan negotiated by buyer and seller.
The bank is a subsidiary of Michigan-based University Bank, and its leaders say they have talked recently with executives from two national banks hoping to learn more about the business.
Islamic law says money cannot grow by itself, the way it does with compounding interest.
Trade is acceptable as long as the equal amounts of money are traded or two different things are swapped with a fairly negotiated price.
So a dime for an apple would be considered "halal,'' or religiously acceptable, while one apple for two apples would be "harem,'' or unacceptable.
Even at University, not everyone is on board.
Some customers have closed their accounts when they learned it was engaging in Islamic finance.
Some employees who objected to the move quit.
The bank also stopped having a Christmas party and no longer serves alcohol at after-hours events.
The Michigan bank focuses on contracts that clearly spell out the risk and reward between lender and borrower.
University Islamic Financial says it's the nation's first to offer Sharia-compliant, federally insured deposits.
Islamic banking is more common overseas, but some U.S. banks and credit card companies are exploring the idea of branching out into Sharia products to reach out to the growing Muslim population.
So Islamic banking is only expected to increase in coming years.
Already, Citigroup offers Sharia products and services to clients overseas, and Visa says it has worked with banks around the world to offer Islamic-compliant products.
The conventional banking system could learn a lot from the idea, said Jawad Ali, a finance lawyer based in Dubai and London who specializes in structuring Sharia-compliant deals.
"We haven't made as much money as the conventional banks because we can't, for example, sell what we don't own,'' he said.
"We have to own it before we sell it. We may have missed out on gains in good times ... but we haven't suffered any losses.''
Of course, there's no guarantee that banks will find immunity in Islamic finance from a severe global downturn.
"I am not doing banking on Mars,'' said Afaq Khan, the head of Saadiq, the Islamic banking arm of Standard Chartered Bank, based in London.
"If real economic activity slows down significantly, the Islamic banking industry will also be affected.''
A Sharia-compliant mortgage is like rent-to-own: There is no note, or mortgage, but typically part of each month's payment is held toward the ultimate purchase.
The property is titled to an individual trust, or limited liability corporation. Deutsche Bank estimates total assets in the Islamic finance market at $1 trillion - a tiny fraction of global financial assets, but the bank said in a recent report that the sector been growing at a clip of 15 to 20 percent per year.
Most big international banks already have Islamic banking arms, and a November report by Moody's Investors Service shows that Islamic banks have been fairly resilient to the global economic downturn.
The U.S. banking industry has not embraced Sharia banking.
Wachovia, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase said they have not adopted Sharia practices and declined to comment about what they may do in the future.
"As far as the future, we are always looking for opportunities to better serve our customers, but our specific strategy is proprietary,'' Wells Fargo spokeswoman Lisa Westermann said.
University Bank President Stephen Ranzini declined to name the U.S. banks that University Islamic has talked to.
But he said his bank soon plans to offer its services such as residential lending to other banks and credit unions nationwide.
Sharia banking is an idea "that is long overdue in this country,'' said Amal Berry-Brown, vice president at Comerica, a Dallas regional bank that has talked with Ranzini.
"At the same time, there really is quite a bit of work to be done.''
Comerica has a strong customer base around Detroit, home to the nation's most concentrated Muslim population.
One issue: There is "a big variance'' within Sharia law about exactly which financial practices are considered good and bad, said Mustafa Gultekin, a finance professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
For University Islamic, the niche appears to be paying off.
Ranzini said he expects it to generate more than 25 percent of the overall bank's revenue this year, up from about 20 percent last year. - AP
Its specialty: financial products that comply with Islamic law.
That means no collecting interest, no short selling and no contracts that are considered exceedingly risky.
It also rules out some of the activity that got Western finance in trouble - subprime mortgages, credit default swaps and the like.
"When you look at the economic crisis we're in, if you were to follow Islamic or Sharia financing, you couldn't have this crisis,'' said John Sickler, corporate director for the bank, University Islamic Financial Corp. in Ann Arbor.
Islamic finance operations aren't prohibited from making a profit.
University Bank President and Chairman Stephen Lange Ranzini, standing, talks with banking consultant Nabeel Shahid at the bank in Ann Arbor, Michigan - AP
Far from it.
Instead, banks that comply with Islamic law, or Sharia, earn money from fees that are part of the cost of the loan, some paid up front and some over time.
University Islamic Financial has two types of financing, one called a marked-up installment sale and the other a lease-to-purchase sale.
Fees in both cases are comparable to interest payments in traditional loans, bank officials say.
For example: A seller who bought a house for $100,000 could sell it for $120,000 or even $300,000, provided the buyer agrees it's a fair deal.
The home could be sold on an installment plan negotiated by buyer and seller.
The bank is a subsidiary of Michigan-based University Bank, and its leaders say they have talked recently with executives from two national banks hoping to learn more about the business.
Islamic law says money cannot grow by itself, the way it does with compounding interest.
Trade is acceptable as long as the equal amounts of money are traded or two different things are swapped with a fairly negotiated price.
So a dime for an apple would be considered "halal,'' or religiously acceptable, while one apple for two apples would be "harem,'' or unacceptable.
Even at University, not everyone is on board.
Some customers have closed their accounts when they learned it was engaging in Islamic finance.
Some employees who objected to the move quit.
The bank also stopped having a Christmas party and no longer serves alcohol at after-hours events.
The Michigan bank focuses on contracts that clearly spell out the risk and reward between lender and borrower.
University Islamic Financial says it's the nation's first to offer Sharia-compliant, federally insured deposits.
Islamic banking is more common overseas, but some U.S. banks and credit card companies are exploring the idea of branching out into Sharia products to reach out to the growing Muslim population.
So Islamic banking is only expected to increase in coming years.
Already, Citigroup offers Sharia products and services to clients overseas, and Visa says it has worked with banks around the world to offer Islamic-compliant products.
The conventional banking system could learn a lot from the idea, said Jawad Ali, a finance lawyer based in Dubai and London who specializes in structuring Sharia-compliant deals.
"We haven't made as much money as the conventional banks because we can't, for example, sell what we don't own,'' he said.
"We have to own it before we sell it. We may have missed out on gains in good times ... but we haven't suffered any losses.''
Of course, there's no guarantee that banks will find immunity in Islamic finance from a severe global downturn.
"I am not doing banking on Mars,'' said Afaq Khan, the head of Saadiq, the Islamic banking arm of Standard Chartered Bank, based in London.
"If real economic activity slows down significantly, the Islamic banking industry will also be affected.''
A Sharia-compliant mortgage is like rent-to-own: There is no note, or mortgage, but typically part of each month's payment is held toward the ultimate purchase.
The property is titled to an individual trust, or limited liability corporation. Deutsche Bank estimates total assets in the Islamic finance market at $1 trillion - a tiny fraction of global financial assets, but the bank said in a recent report that the sector been growing at a clip of 15 to 20 percent per year.
Most big international banks already have Islamic banking arms, and a November report by Moody's Investors Service shows that Islamic banks have been fairly resilient to the global economic downturn.
The U.S. banking industry has not embraced Sharia banking.
Wachovia, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase said they have not adopted Sharia practices and declined to comment about what they may do in the future.
"As far as the future, we are always looking for opportunities to better serve our customers, but our specific strategy is proprietary,'' Wells Fargo spokeswoman Lisa Westermann said.
University Bank President Stephen Ranzini declined to name the U.S. banks that University Islamic has talked to.
But he said his bank soon plans to offer its services such as residential lending to other banks and credit unions nationwide.
Sharia banking is an idea "that is long overdue in this country,'' said Amal Berry-Brown, vice president at Comerica, a Dallas regional bank that has talked with Ranzini.
"At the same time, there really is quite a bit of work to be done.''
Comerica has a strong customer base around Detroit, home to the nation's most concentrated Muslim population.
One issue: There is "a big variance'' within Sharia law about exactly which financial practices are considered good and bad, said Mustafa Gultekin, a finance professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
For University Islamic, the niche appears to be paying off.
Ranzini said he expects it to generate more than 25 percent of the overall bank's revenue this year, up from about 20 percent last year. - AP
Monday, January 12, 2009
Portfolio B @ 12-January-2009
Transaction Costs are excluded.
3300 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 1.77, Market Price = RM1.19, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM1914)
10000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.190, Market Price = RM0.145, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM450)
Realized Profit/(Loss)
1. Uchitec (RM340)
2. IPower (RM300)
3. E&O RM320
4. E&O (RM40)
5. E&O RM165
5. E&O RM50
Note:
Bought 2500 unit of E&O @0.700
Sold 2500 unit of E&O@0.720
3300 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 1.77, Market Price = RM1.19, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM1914)
10000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.190, Market Price = RM0.145, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM450)
Realized Profit/(Loss)
1. Uchitec (RM340)
2. IPower (RM300)
3. E&O RM320
4. E&O (RM40)
5. E&O RM165
5. E&O RM50
Note:
Bought 2500 unit of E&O @0.700
Sold 2500 unit of E&O@0.720
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Typical Nerd in atypical Action - Mouse Hunt
I gotta admit home improvement process requires time, energy and persistency. It's like you're owning a very fragile kingdom castle and all sorts of missiles keep flying into your direction. Damn.
The weed problem is temporarily under control and the situation being monitored since the grasses turning yellowish as at today. There are 2 more trees I wanna chop down but the obstacle is they are further away into the bushes and I don't want to take the risk of being bitten by snakes or other ferocious creatures.
Not forget to mention too that my house was under attack by termites few months back but luckily I've discovered it early and forced back the offensive wave using DIY potions. Again, it will be kept under constant monitoring.
I've gave up about getting rid those little crippy and unwittingly numerious wall crawling things - lizards. They know where to hide, i.e. somewhere out of my reach, darn and they don't fall into the trap houses I bought, costing me RM10.00 with no apparent returns. Maybe someday I will just get a cat to do the work for me.
And then the Rats are(were?) here.
It started from downstair. First, these bastards bite their way through the washing machine's water outflowing plastic pipe. 1 meter long of pipe became 0.5 meter where 50% of it disappeared. Grgggg... I've used metal cable to form a barrier of entry to prevent them from reentrance.
They got brains! Then they almost crawled in through basin into the toilet from outside. I was like "What the hell". Grgggg.... again metal cable in action.
When I thought every possible "door" is closed, they struck one more time.
This time through the basin piping in the kitchen. They bite the pipe to nearly form a hole for them to enter. Thanks to my sensitivity to environmental changes, I've noticed the "security hole" before it is too late. It costs me RM20 to replace the basin pipes. I've put metal cables at the pipe hole outside but it seems to me will not be long lasting and I'm still in the middle of thinking a permanent solution.
So far, no more rat invasive activities detected at downstair. Peace.
Holy craps! I really need to shout. Suddenly at night I heard sounds of "things" running around above the ceiling. Googled about possiblities and found that they might be birds, rats, squirrels or others. Bought one box of ready-to-use 2 wood plates with glues and placed them above the ceiling. Guess what?! Both of the plates caught a rat, albeit small one. Emm... not really cost effective since the product is RM9 meaning I need to spend RM4.50 to catch a stupid rat? So I reverted to use conventional rat glue with manual application on corrugated cardboards. RM8 for 3 applications, roughly RM2.7 for a trap. 2 of it already being fruitful and the remaining one is still awaiting its precious owner.
Total rat killed so far: 4 in 3 months
The tough part during mouse trapping is that when you're going to hunt for them up the ceiling, you need to get ready for some body stretching and bending with excellent balancing. The roof structure is not a free to walk open space. Most spaces are limited by woods, joints and concretes. Also, you don't want to be misstep because you will be destroyed your gypsum ceilings and injured yourself. And prepare for lots of dusts and perhaps spiders.
Phew.. now I'm well trained in walking above there.
What's next? I need to strategize :-)
Friday, January 09, 2009
Portfolio B @ 09-January-2009
Transaction Costs are excluded.
3300 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 1.77, Market Price = RM1.17, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM1980)
10000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.190, Market Price = RM0.145, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM450)
Realized Profit/(Loss)
1. Uchitec (RM340)
2. IPower (RM300)
3. E&O RM320
4. E&O (RM40)
5. E&O RM165
Note:
Bought 3000 unit of E&O @0.605
Sold 3000 unit of E&O@0.660
3300 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 1.77, Market Price = RM1.17, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM1980)
10000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.190, Market Price = RM0.145, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM450)
Realized Profit/(Loss)
1. Uchitec (RM340)
2. IPower (RM300)
3. E&O RM320
4. E&O (RM40)
5. E&O RM165
Note:
Bought 3000 unit of E&O @0.605
Sold 3000 unit of E&O@0.660
Dependence on Russian energy places Europe at risk
The EU must ensure that no one can hold it to ransom in future
The angry stand-off between Russia and Ukraine over gas is now seriously disrupting supplies to several European Union countries. Romania has lost 75 per cent of its supply; Bulgaria has only a few days' gas left; Slovakia is on the verge of declaring a state of emergency. The European Commission has waded in with indignant condemnation. But what may look like a replay of what happened three years ago, when Russia drew international condemnation for shutting off gas supplies to Ukraine is in many ways very different; 2009 is not 2006.
For a start, the political element is less evident, and not only because Russia and its state-controlled energy conglomerate, Gazprom, have been more adept in their public relations. This is more of a commercial row between energy companies over payments. Gazprom is demanding money it says it is owed by the Ukrainian state energy company, Naftogaz. Ukraine says it has paid. But the actual sum remains in contention, as does the price of future supplies. Gazprom stopped supplying gas to Ukraine on New Year's Day.
Falling world energy prices make for another distinction between 2009 and 2006. Three years ago, Russia was a major beneficiary of high oil and gas prices, which strengthened the rouble and enabled it to build up a massive budget surplus. The global credit crunch has reversed the process. Commercial self-interest dictates that Gazprom is no longer in a position to grant favours to Ukraine, even in the unlikely event that it wanted to. It needs the money. And Ukraine, as an independent country, will eventually have to pay market prices for Russian energy, like most of Gazprom's other customers.
The international mood has also changed. Internal rivalries have weakened successive Ukrainian governments and the goodwill generated by the Orange revolution is fading. Gazprom may be a difficult negotiating partner, but by obstructing the flow of gas through transit pipelines, Ukraine is holding both the Russian company and Gazprom's other customers to ransom.
Maybe it hopes that a panicked EU will somehow ride to its rescue, perhaps by interceding on its behalf with Gazprom. Given that its battered economy desperately needs the pipeline transit fees, however, its further logic is unclear.
If the rights and wrongs of the dispute look more complicated three years on, however, the lessons to be learnt by Europe's energy-importing countries are, depressingly, the same. Much of the European Union is vulnerable in the energy department. Sources of energy must be diversified - and soon.
While most West European countries and Turkey can resort to pipelines that do not cross Ukraine, many former Soviet-bloc countries are trapped. New pipelines – North Stream under the Baltic, and South Stream under the Black Sea – are under construction, but they will still leave much of Europe vulnerable to the capacity, and caprice, of one supplier: Russia. The security of the Nabucco pipeline, that would bypass Russia through Georgia, was called into question by the past summer's war.
Although not directly affected by the present dispute, Britain must also come to terms with becoming an energy importer again, curb demand and increase storage capacity. Most immediately, however, what is needed is a neutral disputes procedure capable of settling the differences between Russia and Ukraine. Without this, the EU could be contemplating the cycle of intimidation and cut-offs all over again.
Coffee may protect against oral cancers
Study: Drinking a cup a day reduces risk of developing the disease
NEW YORK - New research indicates that drinking coffee lowers the risk of developing cancer of the oral cavity or throat, at least in the general population of Japan.
The consumption of coffee in Japan is relatively high, as is the rate of cancer of the esophagus in men. To look into any protective effect of coffee drinking, Dr. Toru Naganuma of Tohoku University, Sendai, and colleagues, analyzed data from the population-based Miyagi Cohort Study in Japan.
The study included information about diet, including coffee consumption. Among more than 38,000 study participants aged 40 to 64 years with no prior history of cancer, 157 cases of cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus occurred during 13 years of follow up.
Compared with people who did not drink coffee, those who drank one or more cups per day had half the risk of developing these cancers, Naganuma's group reports in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
They note that the reduction in risk included people who are at high risk for these cancers, namely, those who were current drinkers and/or smokers at the start of the study.
"We had not expected that we could observe such a substantial inverse association with coffee consumption and the risk of these cancers," Naganuma commented to Reuters Health, "and the inverse association in high-risk groups for these cancers as well."
The researchers conclude in their article, "Although cessation of alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking is currently the best known way to help reduce the risk of developing these cancers, coffee could be a preventive factor in both low-risk and high-risk populations."
Consumers confused about the new TNB billing system
MANY people have been complaining of high electricity bills ever since Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) introduced a new method of tabulating power usage recently.
“My bill has increased tremendously ever since the new tariff was introduced. All my children are students and need to use the computer and printer which increases the bill,” housewife K. Shanti said.
Shanti, 49, does not understand why the tariff for consumers who exceed 400kWh usage need to pay a 30sen per kWh charge.
“The rate is too high for a home user. Why hasn’t the TNB reduced the cost of electricity after the oil prices have decreased?” she asked.
According to a TNB spokesman, as the sole electricity provider in the country, the company was very concerned about the continuous misperception the public have about electricity tariffs and oil prices.
The spokesman said that TNB noted that many still assumed that the electricity tariff was raised due to a hike in the cost of petrol and diesel in June last year.
Huge jump: Shanti’s bill has increased tremendously since the new tariffs were introduced.
“This is not true. Instead, the increase in tariff is in line with the government decision to review the gas price to the power sector,” he said.
“The new tariff structure that took effect from July 1 last year was meant to allow the TNB to offset the increase in gas and coal prices,” he said.
Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor had earlier said that tariff could not be reduced for now although the price of oil has come down.
Shaziman had also said that in peninsular Malaysia, electricity was generated mostly by using gas and coal, and not oil.
“The three main sources to generate electricity in the peninsula is 60% gas, 30% coal and 6% to 7% hydro power while the rest from other sources,” the TNB spokesman said.
He said that TNB would maintain the lifeline tariff rate for household consumers whose monthly electricity consumption was up to 200kWh.
“For other users, we encourage them to consume electricity wisely such as by using energy efficient appliances,” the spokesman said.
Lee Kum Yun also complained about being confused with the tariff billing system.
“The tariff clearly indicates that the rates are per month. However, the TNB men who come and check the meter usually come several days after the month-long duration,” Lee said.
“So when they come after that one month, shouldn’t they recount the extra power used with the first tariff below 400kWh per month?” he asked?
According to the TNB spokesman, an estimate reading will be made in cases where the TNB meter reader is unable to read the meter due to unforeseen circumstances.
He said the TNB meter reader would provide an estimate reading of the bill.
However, the TNB will only give estimate readings of up to three consecutive months. In the fourth month, should the meter reader face a similar problem, the TNB will make arrangements with the house owner to allow its representative to take an actual reading of the meter.
The TNB spokesman said house owners should check out the company’s website – www.tnb.com.my– for more details on tariff charges or energy saving tips.
Scandal shakes faith in accounting Big Four
One insider says PricewaterhouseCoopers was as shocked as anyone at the admission of years of financial deception at Satyam Computer Services
HONG KONG: A US$1 billion (RM3.53 billion) fraud at outsourcing firm Satyam Computer Services, dubbed "India's Enron", has shaken investor confidence in the world's Big Four accounting firms, which have expanded rapidly in Asia despite a general shortage of qualified accountants.
Ramalinga Raju, founder and chairman of India's fourth-biggest software services exporter, resigned on Wednesday saying profits were falsely inflated for years.
"This is shocking. I can't even let my thoughts go in the direction that there is another Satyam somewhere," said Shailesh Haribhakti, executive chairman of BDO Haribhakti, a consulting and management services firm based in Mumbai.
"I have very high respect for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) who are their auditors, but it's incredible that such gross things existed and were not discovered," he said.
PwC said it was examining Raju's five-page resignation letter and declined further comment, though one insider said the accountant was as shocked as anyone at the admission of years of financial deception at Satyam.
PwC staff in Asia said they had received internal emails yesterday telling them not to discuss Satyam publicly.
"We are also shocked by the Satyam news and many of our colleagues and managers describe it as India's Enron, so you can imagine how big the impact will be to us," one PwC employee said on condition of anonymity.
PwC accelerated its Asia expansion in 2002 when it took over offices and staff from Arthur Andersen, which was auditor for Enron and once one of the "Big Five" global accounting firms, along with PwC, Ernst & Young Deloitte & Touche and KPMG.
Like its three big rivals, PwC has grown rapidly across Asia, particularly in China and India, recruiting thousands amid fierce competition for talent.
Frank Lyn, PwC's Beijing-based China Markets Leader, said in November that a shortage of talent was the firm's top challenge in China.
It can take three to five years to groom a fresh graduate at a major firm like PwC to the level of senior associate, who can meet clients directly for accounting services.
But firms in busy markets have sometimes fast-tracked new hires in services that can be beyond their professional level.
Sharmila Gopinath, research director at the Asian Corporate Governance Association in Hong Kong, said accounting firms face a lack of qualified people at all levels in Asia.
"Sometimes people, especially at the top, find themselves stretched at certain levels, especially when it comes to supervision of work," she said.
"While the Big Four work in places like India, China and Malaysia within the local context, they have a global standard which they must adhere to. Yet, the local rules can be vastly different and time-consuming to comply with," she added.
David Legg, managing director at Gerson Lehrman, a consulting firm specialising in private equity investments, said the Satyam case was a warning that investors should not rely exclusively on financial due diligence by accountants for deal-making decisions.
Gerson Lehrman says it provides "double-check" and in-depth research services for many private equity investors who also hire the Big Four for regular due diligence.
When markets turn bad and corporate frauds are more easily exposed, private equity firms like Blackstone and Carlyle seek additional channels to verify their investment portfolio or deal targets, Legg noted. - Reuters
HONG KONG: A US$1 billion (RM3.53 billion) fraud at outsourcing firm Satyam Computer Services, dubbed "India's Enron", has shaken investor confidence in the world's Big Four accounting firms, which have expanded rapidly in Asia despite a general shortage of qualified accountants.
Ramalinga Raju, founder and chairman of India's fourth-biggest software services exporter, resigned on Wednesday saying profits were falsely inflated for years.
"This is shocking. I can't even let my thoughts go in the direction that there is another Satyam somewhere," said Shailesh Haribhakti, executive chairman of BDO Haribhakti, a consulting and management services firm based in Mumbai.
"I have very high respect for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) who are their auditors, but it's incredible that such gross things existed and were not discovered," he said.
PwC said it was examining Raju's five-page resignation letter and declined further comment, though one insider said the accountant was as shocked as anyone at the admission of years of financial deception at Satyam.
PwC staff in Asia said they had received internal emails yesterday telling them not to discuss Satyam publicly.
"We are also shocked by the Satyam news and many of our colleagues and managers describe it as India's Enron, so you can imagine how big the impact will be to us," one PwC employee said on condition of anonymity.
PwC accelerated its Asia expansion in 2002 when it took over offices and staff from Arthur Andersen, which was auditor for Enron and once one of the "Big Five" global accounting firms, along with PwC, Ernst & Young Deloitte & Touche and KPMG.
Like its three big rivals, PwC has grown rapidly across Asia, particularly in China and India, recruiting thousands amid fierce competition for talent.
Frank Lyn, PwC's Beijing-based China Markets Leader, said in November that a shortage of talent was the firm's top challenge in China.
It can take three to five years to groom a fresh graduate at a major firm like PwC to the level of senior associate, who can meet clients directly for accounting services.
But firms in busy markets have sometimes fast-tracked new hires in services that can be beyond their professional level.
Sharmila Gopinath, research director at the Asian Corporate Governance Association in Hong Kong, said accounting firms face a lack of qualified people at all levels in Asia.
"Sometimes people, especially at the top, find themselves stretched at certain levels, especially when it comes to supervision of work," she said.
"While the Big Four work in places like India, China and Malaysia within the local context, they have a global standard which they must adhere to. Yet, the local rules can be vastly different and time-consuming to comply with," she added.
David Legg, managing director at Gerson Lehrman, a consulting firm specialising in private equity investments, said the Satyam case was a warning that investors should not rely exclusively on financial due diligence by accountants for deal-making decisions.
Gerson Lehrman says it provides "double-check" and in-depth research services for many private equity investors who also hire the Big Four for regular due diligence.
When markets turn bad and corporate frauds are more easily exposed, private equity firms like Blackstone and Carlyle seek additional channels to verify their investment portfolio or deal targets, Legg noted. - Reuters
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Portfolio B @ 08-January-2009
Eddy said: Seeing Hang Seng and other major indices plunged their way eradicating previous gains, I took a loss on 2000 unit of E&O bought yesterday, without hesitation.
Transaction Costs are excluded.
3300 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 1.77, Market Price = RM1.16, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM2013)
10000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.190, Market Price = RM0.145, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM450)
Realized Profit/(Loss)
1. Uchitec (RM340)
2. IPower (RM300)
3. E&0 RM320
4. E&0 (RM40)
Note:
Sold 2000 unit of E&O@0.560
Transaction Costs are excluded.
3300 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 1.77, Market Price = RM1.16, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM2013)
10000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.190, Market Price = RM0.145, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM450)
Realized Profit/(Loss)
1. Uchitec (RM340)
2. IPower (RM300)
3. E&0 RM320
4. E&0 (RM40)
Note:
Sold 2000 unit of E&O@0.560
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Portfolio B @ 07-January-2009
Transaction Costs are excluded.
3300 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 1.77, Market Price = RM1.23, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM1782)
10000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.190, Market Price = RM0.145, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM450)
2000 unit of E&O
Avg Buy Price = RM0.58, Market Price = RM0.575, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM10)
Realized Profit/(Loss)
1. Uchitec (RM340)
2. IPower (RM300)
3. E&0 RM320
Note:
Bought 2000 unit of E&O@0.580
Sold 2000 unit of E&O@0.605
3300 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 1.77, Market Price = RM1.23, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM1782)
10000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.190, Market Price = RM0.145, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM450)
2000 unit of E&O
Avg Buy Price = RM0.58, Market Price = RM0.575, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM10)
Realized Profit/(Loss)
1. Uchitec (RM340)
2. IPower (RM300)
3. E&0 RM320
Note:
Bought 2000 unit of E&O@0.580
Sold 2000 unit of E&O@0.605
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
McDonald's Prosperity Burger. Double Up? My Feet
I give no comments on the taste, textures or whatever craps review about McDonald's Prosperity Burger launched in Malaysia almost every year when the time is around Chinese New Year. I'm not stupid enough to see somebody jack up the price and expect you to get prosper with it. Nah.
Why am I so furious about this particular burger? As a matter of fact I'm not, but the Prosperity Burger "promotion" this year is like a scam on the loose (at least to my standard).
First and foremost, I suspect that the marketing guys in McDonald are doing their best not to let you (consumers) know about the price until you actually queue up at their counters and almost order the burger.
Check their website. Nothing stated about the price of Prosperity Burger but almost all other items are priced.
In their branch, there are stacks of Prosperity Burger brochures on the table. Taken one and read it and reveals nothing about the price.
Even the large dashboard at the back of the counter, the price is literally so small (Again, at least to my standard).
Secondly, I know that retail food prices are not regulated but RM18.88 for a burger set consists of a burger, a cup of carbonated drink and some fries..... It's an outrage. I rather go to Burger King. Yeah, that's right. I'm the consumer and I decide whether the restaurant and food is worthy my money. Boycott McDonald. At least I will for at least one calendar quarter. :p
At the end, I stepped out from McDonald shop and went to one kopitiam style restaurant and enjoyed my half-boiled eggs.
Why am I so furious about this particular burger? As a matter of fact I'm not, but the Prosperity Burger "promotion" this year is like a scam on the loose (at least to my standard).
First and foremost, I suspect that the marketing guys in McDonald are doing their best not to let you (consumers) know about the price until you actually queue up at their counters and almost order the burger.
Check their website. Nothing stated about the price of Prosperity Burger but almost all other items are priced.
In their branch, there are stacks of Prosperity Burger brochures on the table. Taken one and read it and reveals nothing about the price.
Even the large dashboard at the back of the counter, the price is literally so small (Again, at least to my standard).
Secondly, I know that retail food prices are not regulated but RM18.88 for a burger set consists of a burger, a cup of carbonated drink and some fries..... It's an outrage. I rather go to Burger King. Yeah, that's right. I'm the consumer and I decide whether the restaurant and food is worthy my money. Boycott McDonald. At least I will for at least one calendar quarter. :p
At the end, I stepped out from McDonald shop and went to one kopitiam style restaurant and enjoyed my half-boiled eggs.
Monday, January 05, 2009
Wedding Photos
Not mine. :p.
My pal, Wong from Flextronics happily married last year and yet I was unable to make it to his dinner, I'm so regretted now :(
All the best dude.
Please enjoy the photos below:
Wedding Pics
Wedding Dinner Penang
Wedding Day KL
Wedding Dinner KL
Bali Honeymoon
My pal, Wong from Flextronics happily married last year and yet I was unable to make it to his dinner, I'm so regretted now :(
All the best dude.
Please enjoy the photos below:
Wedding Pics
Wedding Dinner Penang
Wedding Day KL
Wedding Dinner KL
Bali Honeymoon
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Portfolio B @ 04-January-2009
Eddy said: Simply bought 2000 unit of E&O after a glimpse at its financial report and few indicators.
Transaction Costs are excluded.
3300 unit of Pelikan
Avg Buy Price = RM 1.77, Market Price = RM1.24, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM1749)
10000 unit of IPower
Avg Buy Price = RM0.190, Market Price = RM0.14, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = (RM500)
2000 unit of E&O
Avg Buy Price = RM0.445, Market Price = RM0.460, Unrealized Gains/(Losses) = RM30
Realized Profit/(Loss)
1. Uchitec (RM340)
2. IPower (RM300)
Note:
Bought 2000 unit of E&O@0.445
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Get Ready for Massive Weeds Killing
Paint ball shooting? Nah, that's kid stuff.
I'm talking about killing real living beings here, even better they are just "sitting" around and let the massacre fall on them. MUAHAHAHA (Crazy laughing again).
The thing is like this. These irritating and potentially harmful weeds not really grow within my house sovereignty territory but somehow you know that one day they are going to "invade" your place. Check out the behemoth of weeds below:
See how tall are these trees? Luckily they are kinda far from my backyard. But the problem is there are signs of little similar monsters start to come nearby. I didnt notice them at first, luckily my mother in-laws warned us about it. If bad things happen without you knowing it beforehand, that's bad luck. However if someone've already warned you and you failed to take action to prevent or rectify it, that's stupidity. I'm smart of course.
As usual, to do any tasks in effective, efficient and safe manners, using the right tools is of utmost important.
Defensive equipments:
Safety boot
Sunray protective hat, goggle, maskAnd long pants and long sleeve shirt.
Melee weapons:
Steel axe - Chop Chop ChopRanged weapons:
Backpack sprayerPoison add-on:
Final death blow to the weed trees.
For the spraying partMy stash:
Costs:
The actual cost for the above stuff is cheaper than I budgeted for it. The final price of RM265 include a 10 steps tall aluminium ladder. Cheap.
It was and still raining at this moment and what I need is a clear day to start the one sided windfall sure win war.
Friday, January 02, 2009
What to Do With Leftover Champagne
No matter how much you imbibe on New Year’s Eve, chances are you’ll have some already-opened bubbly still left over on the morning after.
While mimosas, bellinis and other champagne cocktails are always an option on New Year’s Day, a more-healthful choice may be to use the uncorked bubbly in creative home cooking. Champagne is an excellent accompaniment to seafood and salads, and several Web sites offer recipes for starting the new year in a healthy way.
MyRecipe.com offers seven things to do with leftover champagne, including a 10-minute dish, Scallops in Champagne Sauce.
Chef Bryan Voltaggio from Volt in Frederick, Md., suggests putting leftover champagne in an ice-cream maker. The resulting sorbet will have a bubbly effect and can be served atop raw oysters for brunch. He offers several more ambitious ideas as well at FrederickNewsPost.com.
The Galveston County Daily News offers recipes for a tantalizing dish of Gulf shrimp, curry powder, cilantro and champagne as well as champagne truffles and a champagne vinaigrette.
Planet Green suggests using leftovers to make champagne vinegar.
And Epicurious.com suggests using leftover champagne or any leftover white wine to cook mussels.
Blood Sugar Control Linked to Memory Decline, Study Says
Spikes in blood sugar can take a toll on memory by affecting the dentate gyrus, an area of the brain within the hippocampus that helps form memories, a new study reports.
Researchers said the effects can be seen even when levels of blood sugar, or glucose, are only moderately elevated, a finding that may help explain normal age-related cognitive decline, since glucose regulation worsens with age.
The study, by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and funded in part by the National Institute on Aging, was published in the December issue of Annals of Neurology.
“If we conclude this is underlying normal age-related cognitive decline, then it affects all of us,” said lead investigator Dr. Scott Small, associate professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical Center. The ability to regulate glucose starts deteriorating by the third or fourth decade of life, he added.
Since glucose regulation is improved with physical activity, Dr. Small said, “We have a behavioral recommendation — physical exercise.”
In the study, researchers used high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging to map brain regions in 240 elderly subjects. They found a correlation between elevated blood glucose levels and reduced cerebral blood volume, or blood flow, in the dentate gyrus, an indication of reduced metabolic activity and function in that region of the brain.
By manipulating blood sugar levels in mice and monkeys, researchers said, they tried to confirm a cause-and-effect relationship between the glucose spikes and the reduced blood volume, Dr. Small said.
Bruce S. McEwen, who heads the neuroendocrinology lab at Rockefeller University in New York and was not involved in the research, said the study’s findings were “compelling,” with important implications not just for the elderly but for the growing number of overweight children and teens at risk of Type 2 diabetes.
“When we think about diabetes, we think about heart disease and all the consequences for the rest of the body, but we usually don’t think about the brain,” he said. “This is something we’ve got to be really worried about. We need to think about their ultimate risks not only for cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, but also about their cognitive skills, and whether they will be able to keep up with the demands of education and a fast-paced complex society. That’s the part that scares the heck out of me.”
Previous observational studies have shown that physical activity reduces the risk of cognitive decline, and studies have also found that diabetes increases the risk of dementia. Earlier studies had also found a link between Type 2 diabetes and dysfunction in the dentate gyrus.
Sheri Colberg-Ochs, an associate professor of exercise science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., said her research has found that regular exercise, even light physical activity, can offset the potentially negative effects of Type 2 diabetes on cognitive function. It is not clear what the mechanism is, she said, but may have something to do with the effect of insulin.
“This new study is interesting in that it allows for a greater understanding of which region of the hippocampus is likely most affected by poorly controlled diabetes,” she said.
But the elevations in blood glucose seen in the new study are more subtle and would not be considered a disease state, Dr. Small said.
“It’s part of the normal process of aging, much like wrinkling of skin,” he said. “It happens to all of us inexorably, and it worsens progressively across the life span
db2diag.log hexadecimal error number to DB2 SQLCODE
The error number conversion table below is intended for the hex error # in db2diag.log to db2 sqlcode. For example, the hex error number ending with 80D3 can be looked up by db2 ? command using SQL4977N sqlcode. -4977 is equivalent to 4977N (N for negative).
Sorry for the messy of the following list. Copied it from somewhere. You can click on the post title to go to IBM site that has this list.
Return Code SQL State Reason Code Description
80D3 -4977 Invalid export directory specified
80D4 -4978 Dropped table cannot be accessed
80D5 -4979 Unable to export the dropped table data
80D6 -1620 1 Unable to flush event monitor because it wasn't started
80D7 -1620 2 Unable to flush event monitor because it is running at a pre-version 6 output level
811E -996 Invalid user-specified directory
812F -290 Access not allowed: table space is quiesced
8130 -290 Access not allowed: table space is load-pending
8131 -290 Access not allowed: table space is delete-pending
8132 -290 Access not allowed: table space is backup-pending
8133 -290 Access not allowed: table space is rollforward-pending
8134 -290 Access not allowed: table space is rollforward-in-progress
8135 -290 Access not allowed: table space is recovery-pending
8136 -290 Access not allowed: table space is disabled
8137 -290 Access not allowed
8138 -291 Invalid state transition
8139 -294 Container is already being used
813A -295 Container names are too long
813B -297 Path name is too long
813C -298 Bad container path
813D -299 Duplicate container
813E -257 Raw device is not allowed
813F -258 Add containers pending
8146 -1442 Bad container size
8173 No dirty buffers
81A7 Invalid alternate
8201 +100 End of file reached
8203 -952 I/O Interrupt
8212 -804 Invalid request
8303 -952 Interrupt
8380 No term
8381 No interrupt
8382 No interrupt
8383 Incompatible release level
8384 Operation not supported
8385 Server/requester migration level incompatible
8386 ASP protocol error
8387 Bad ASP object OBJDSS
8388 Bad FDOCA object
8389 SNA protocol error
838A Invalid SQL request
838B Cursor already open
838C Cursor not open
838D Syntax error
838E Invalid FDOCA descriptor
8390 End of SQLDTAGRP
8394 Parameter Error
8395 Value Error
8396 SQLDA too small
8397 Invalid RPYDSS
8398 Parser syntax error
8399 FDOCA Error
839A End of input
839B Code point not found
839C SQLCODE set in parse
839D Data descriptor mismatch
839E Required parameter not received
839F Bad format
83A0 Duplicate parameters detected
83A3 Translation substitution
8401 +100 End of file reached
8403 -952 Interrupt
8404 -950 Active cursor
8406 -508 Invalid cursor position
842E -659 Check-pending state
8443 -804 General purpose validation error
844B -1477 Table not available because forward recovery encountered no log operation
8451 -680 Too many columns
8502 -911 Deadlock encountered
8503 -1044 Interrupt
8544 -911 Lock timeout with transaction rollback
8550 -913 Lock timeout with statement rollback
856D -902 SQLCA has been built and saved in a component-specific control block
8574 -1035 File open error
8575 -1015 Database needs recovery
8576 -1042 Deadlock start error
8577 Deadlock stop error
8578 -1034 Recovery failed
8579 Conditional conflict
85A1 Backup pending
85A2 Recovery pending
85A4 +993 Invalid new log path
85A5 +995 Invalid current log path
85A6 -1267 Exist file not found
85AA Table space rollforward stopped
85AB I/O error encountered
85AC Duplicate entry
85B3 Missing log extent
85B4 Log extent is of a different size
85B5 -1472 System clock difference exceeds max_time_diff on connect (log synchronization)
85B6 -1473 System clock difference exceeds max_time_diff on commit
85B7 +1474 System clock difference exceeds max_time_diff on commit (read-only)
85B8 -276 Restore pending
85B9 -1275 Invalid stop time for rollforward
85BA -1276 Invalid time to stop rollforward
85BB -4970 Rollforward is missing log files
85BC -4971 Rollforward log is already truncated
85BD -4972 Rollforward log path is full
85BE -4973 Rollforward log mismatch
85BF -4974 Rollforward query error
85C0 -4975 Rollforward cancelled
85C1 -4976 Rollforward not issued on catalog
85C3 -4906 Table space rollforward has invalid table space set
85C4 -1278 Table space rollforward required for rollback
85C5 -1280 Invalid stop time for table space rollforward
8659 Term characters not provided
865A Conversion table not loaded
865B No conversion table exists
865C Invalid target code page
865D Invalid source code page
865F -5123 Invalid code page
8660 -5124 Invalid country code
8661 -5125 Incompatible CP and CC
8662 Invalid stored procedure
8663 Invalid name
8664 Expired password
8665 Bad password
8666 User or group description over 8 characters
8667 User or group ID over 8 characters
8668 Password over 8 characters
8669 Bad group ID
866A Bad user ID
866E Not a descendant
866F SMG started in background
8670 Invalid thread ID
867F -10nn Dropped current directory
86A8 Range too large
86A9 Invalid user name
86AA Owner died
86AB Path error
86AC Programming error
86AD Exit list full
86AE Exit list not found
86AF Services not initialized
870B -138 Invalid SUBSTR parameter
8711 -910 Table or table space drop pending
8712 -804 Invalid request
8713 -804 Bad request context
8714 -804 Invalid section number
8719 -811 Non-unique answer
871D -994 Savepoint error
871E -996 Invalid directory, involving the path length of the REORG directory
874A -1476 Forced rollback on unit of work because of an error on number of log tables
876B Authorization error
876C Authorization with different ID
876D -902 SQLCA has been built and saved in a component-specific control block
877E RDS error
8803 -1044 Interrupt
8905 -803 Duplicate key
8971 Index scan incomplete
897A Index end of file
897B Index internal error
897D User ID suspended
8A72 Compilation error
8B07 -302 Output truncated
8B08 -413 Values out of range
8B09 -304 Conversion overflow converting date or time to character string
8B0A -303 Incompatible types
8B0C -309 Null input invalid
8B0D -305 Null output invalid
8B0E -804 Invalid output type
8B0F -822 Invalid input address
8B10 -802 Math overflow
8B15 -311 Negative SQLDA length
8B16 -301 Incompatible types (dynamic)
8B17 -180 Time or date syntax error
8B18 -181 Time or date range error
8B1A -404 String column overflow
8B1B -406 Numeric column overflow
8B1C -407 Non-nullable column
8B1F -183 Date/time arithmetic result out of range
8B20 -182 Date/time arithmetic duration out of range
8B21 -176 Translate scalar run-time error
8B22 -436 Null term missing on input CSTR
8B47 -304 Conversion overflow (numeric value)
8B48 -302 Numeric value out of range
8B49 -801 Divide by zero operation not allowed
8B4C -420 Invalid input format
8B4D -410 Float string too long
8B4E Null-only truncation
8B4F Date is truncated
8C03 -952 Interrupt
8C05 -803 Duplicate key
9301 Allocation failure
9302 Conversion failure
9303 Transaction processor (TP) not started
9304 TP limit reached
9305 Remote TP exit normal
9306 Allocation failed, attempting retry
9307 Allocation failed, no retry attempted
9308 General allocation error
9309 Conversion failed, no retry attempted
930A TP not started, no retry attempted
930B Remote TP abend
930C Communications Manager not loaded
930D Communications Manager abend
930E Bad security on conversation
930F Unknown APPC error
9310 Communications Manager parameter bad
9311 Communications Manager bad request state
9312 External communications error
9313 Remote TP send error
9332 Invalid name or name number
9333 Invalid session ID
9334 Invalid command
9335 Invalid data
9336 Adapter error
9337 Reset error
9338 Other NetBIOS error
9364 Node environment is corrupted
960C Communications Manager not loaded
960F Generic APPC error
9617 Already connected
9618 Connection in progress
9619 Connection refused
962A Connection timed out
962B Address already in use
962C No connection
962D Socket is bound already
962E Socket is not bound yet
962F Socket not writable/readable yet
9630 Partial message was sent
9631 Partial message was received
9C14 FCM communication error
9C15 FCM node not found
9C16 -1229 Node recovery
A602 -901 Invalid memory address
A603 -901 General memory management error
A604 -901 Memory management error: invalid size
AB01 -901 Internal error
AC01 -901 Internal program error
C107 -986 File error
C109 -8100 Segmented tables, page number too high
C119 -995 EMP indirect not found
C11A -995 EMP map information ended
C11B -995 EMP map information not found
C11C -996 Mapping information should exist, but cannot be found
C11D -292 Cannot create file
C11E -293 Container not accessible
C180 Agent file close error
C201 -970 Access denied
C211 Seek error
C212 Unknown media error
C213 File not found
C214 File already exists
C215 File in use
C216 Invalid file name
C217 Commit failed
C218 Undo failed
C40A -659 Maximum object size reached
C47E Index needs to be recreated
C47F File renamed
C57F File renamed
C601 -970 Access denied
C602 -972 Change disk
C603 -972 Not a DOS disk
C604 -974 Drive locked
C605 -976 Device not ready
C606 -978 File write-protected
C607 -986 File error
C608 -902 Delete directory error
C67C Device is busy
C721 -2423 Missing index during offline backup
C90A Maximum object size reached
CE0B -1614 1 Encountered an unknown event monitor target type
CE0C -1614 2 The event monitor target path was not sent
CE0D -1614 3 Access to event monitor target path was denied
CE0E -1614 4 Event monitor target path is not the name of a pipe
CE0F -1614 5 No process has opened the event monitor target pipe for reading
CE10 -1614 6 Encountered an unexpected I/0 error.
D085
21 Authentication failed due to no user licenses available
D107 -960 No more file tokens
D121 -289 Container full
D122 Exceeded maximum quiescers
D123 -296 Table space limit exceeded
D124 -259 Map too big
D20C -968 Disk full
D21A -930 No memory: UNDO heap
D315 No memory on requester
D316 No memory on server
D31D Vectored I/O request too big
D408 -962 Maximum tables in file
D40D -912 Too many locks
D411 -902 Maximum long field file size
D505 -930 Memory allocation failure
D509 -964 Log file full
D50A -912 Lock list full
D57F -1004 Disk full log file
D601 -954 No memory heap (for application)
D602 -956 No memory heap (for database)
D603 -101 No memory heap
D604 -930 Share buffer exceeded
D605 -930 Memory allocation failure
D606 -958 Too many open files
D607 -960 No more file tokens
D60B -955 No memory sort heap
D60C -968 Disk full
D60D -912 Too many locks
D60E -973 No memory
D610 -902 No memory BSU heap
D612 -953 No memory: AgentHeap
D613 -957, -959
No memory: ComHeap
D614 -961, -962
No memory: RSHeap
D615 No memory: Users/groups
D616 -930 No memory: DrIdx heap
D617 -930 No memory: ASP heap
D619 -930 No memory: Queue heap
D61A -930 No memory: UND heap
D61B -930 No memory: Lock heap
D61C -930 No memory: System heap
D61D -930 No memory
D61E -930 No memory
D620 -930 No memory
D625 -930 No memory
D62B -930 No memory
D67D Shared memory set exists
D67E -9 No memory for DosLoadMod
D905 -930 Memory allocation failure
D90F -990 Index structure problem
DC26 -6042 No FCM MSG_ANCHOR
DC27 -6040 No FCM buffer
DC28 -6041 No FCM connection entry
DC29 -6043 No FCM request block
DC2A -902 No high priority buffer
E101 -980 1 Bad page
E10A -980 10 File does not exist
E10E -982 Bad signature
E119 -1034 Page CHECKSUM error
E11A -1035 Bad database, won't flush it
E11B -980 27 Both primary and shadow ORFs are bad
E11C -980 28 Primary ORF is bad
E11D -980 29 Secondary ORF is bad
E11E -980 30 Both primary and shadow SSFs are bad
E11F -980 31 Primary SSF bad
E120 -980 32 Secondary SSF bad
E40B -980 11 Object does not exist
E50D -980 13 Bad log file
E510 -5123 Error in log control file
E511 -1258 Log control file not found
E512 -1259 I/O error accessing log control file
E513 -1260 Database not recoverable
E514 -1261 Recovery not pending
E515 -1263 Invalid log extent file
E516 -1264 Log extent file does not belong to the database
E517 -1265 Log extent file is the incorrect version
E518 -1266 Point in time prior to recovery
E521 -1034 Recovery failed
E522 -1269 Error while retrieving file during forward recovery
E57F -1036 Adjust log file error
E602 -980 2 CRC error
E603 -980 3 Disk error
E604 -980 4 General failure
E605 -980 5 Read fault
E606 -980 6 Seek error
E607 -980 7 Sector not found
E608 -980 8 Unknown media error
E609 -980 9 Write fault
E60A -980 10 File does not exist
E60C -980 12 Cannot open file
E60F -980 15 Network access denied
E623 -931 Too many open system files
F051 -1042 Invalid log record encountered during redo or undo: unknown component
F102 -902 2 BPS logic error
F103 -902 3 Invalid buffer pointer
F104 -902 4 No buffers
F109 -902 9 Data does not exist
F10A -902 10 File already exists
F10B -902 11 Unfixed buffer page
F10C -902 12 Invalid file token
F10D -902 13 Invalid file type
F110 -902 16 Invalid mode parameter
F117 -902 23 Invalid reference
F121 -902 33 RAM semaphore error
F124 -902 36 Bad configuration file
F136 -902 54 Bad header
F13B -902 59 File not found in the reorg linked list
F149 -902 73 Bad database path
F156 -902 86 Page already exists
F176 -902 118 Invalid pool ID
F17D State already off
F210 -902 16 Invalid mode parameter
F21B -902 27 Bad transaction ID
F225 -902 37 Invalid file handle
F331 -902 49 Bad selector
F33C -902 60 Tokenizer stack overflow
F345 The server STARTDBM failed
F34A -902 74 Node manager thread failed
F34B -902 75 Database is bad
F34C -902 76 Parser stack overflow
F34D -902 77 Token buffer overflow
F34E -902 78 Bad value in code page table
F34F -902 79 Configuration mismatch
F401 -902 1 DMS data file error
F418 -902 24 Bad table handle
F419 -902 25 Bad record ID
F42D -902 45 Reallocation error
F42E -902 46 Set signal error
F42F -902 47 Invalid mode
F432 -902 50 Floating point error
F451 -1042 Invalid log record encountered during redo or undo: bad record length
F455 -902 85 Program error
F47A -902 122 Record deleted
F47C -902 124 Missing defaults
F51B -902 27 Bad transaction ID
F51C -902 28 Log file overflow
F51D -902 29 Fatal logic error
F51E -902 30 No active transaction
F51F -902 31 Maximum save points
F520 -902 32 No active save point
F527 -902 39 Bad record type
F528 -902 40 Transaction ID table overflow
F529 -902 41 Invalid LSN
F52A -902 42 Transaction already started
F550 -902 80 Database in recovery mode
F605 -1068 Message file not found
F606 -1068 Message not found
F609 -902 9 Data does not exist
F60A -902 10 File already exists
F60B -902 11 Unfixed buffer page
F60C -902 12 Invalid file token
F60D -902 13 Invalid file type
F60E -902 14 Lock violation
F60F -902 15 Directory overflow
F610 -902 16 Invalid mode parameter
F611 -902 17 Invalid path
F612 -902 18 Invalid page number
F613 -902 19 Sector boundary error
F614 -902 20 System internal error
F616 -902 22 File sharing error
F617 -902 23 Invalid reference
F61A -902 26 Invalid selector
F621 -902 33 RAM semaphore error
F622 -902 34 Access error
F624 -902 36 Bad configuration file
F625 -902 37 Invalid file handle
F626 -902 38 No file descriptor
F631 -902 49 Bad selector
F635 -902 53 Conditional failure
F637 -902 55 Infinite retry
F638 -902 56 Stored procedure not found
F639 -902 57 Invalid drive
F63A -902 58 Bad heap ID
F63D -902 61 Duplicate queue
F63E -902 62 Bad queue handle
F63F -902 63 Queue message too big
F640 -902 64 No message in queue
F641 -902 65 Message not sent
F642 -902 66 Queue does not exist
F643 -902 67 Max queue limit
F644 -902 68 Invalid queue name
F690 DB2NODE environment variable has a bad value
F691 The db2nodes.cfg file contains an error
F730 -902 48 Invalid file
F733 -902 51 Invalid compile request
F85F -902 95 Generic LOB manager error
F860 -902 96 Cannot redo operation
F861 -902 97 Beginning segment (BSEG) already trimmed
F862 -902 98 Insufficient space
F863 -902 99 No mini directory
F864 -902 100 Invalid LM descriptor
F865 -902 101 Invalid address
F866 -902 102 LF space exhausted
F867 -902 103 BSEG size/address conflict
F868 -902 104 BSEG not free or allocated
F869 -902 105 Incorrect BSEG size
F86A -902 106 BSEG not free
F86B -902 107 Bad count array
F86C -902 108 Lock error
F86D -902 109 Not found error
F86E -902 110 Value out of bounds
F86F -902 111 Unexpected NULL value
F870 -902 112 Encountered fatal error
F871 -902 113 Bad state
F872 -902 114 Request too big
F873 No slots for threads
F874 Thread not waiting
F875 Owner died
F87B Too many active threads
F912 -902 18 Invalid page number
F915 -902 21 Memory allocation error
F92B -902 43 Index token does not exist
F92C -902 44 Key not found
F952 -902 82 SMP problems
F953 -902 83 Invalid database release
F954 -902 84 Program error
FB2E -902 46 Set signal error
FC07 -902 7 Severe internal error
FC21 -902 33 RAM semaphore error
FC7E -902 126 Component interface error
FC7F -902 127 FCM programming error
FC80 -902 128 FCM daemon not available
FC81 -902 129 FCM node configuration file error
FC88 -902 136 BDS communication error
FC89 -902 137 BDS partner error
FC8F -1445 No Context
FD8A -902 138 Invalid partition map ID
FD8B -902 139 Not able to fetch from catalog
FD8C -902 140 Invalid data type
FD8D Invalid partition number
FD8E PMAP is of a 1-node nodegroup
More information on interpreting db2diag.log entries.
Sorry for the messy of the following list. Copied it from somewhere. You can click on the post title to go to IBM site that has this list.
Return Code SQL State Reason Code Description
80D3 -4977 Invalid export directory specified
80D4 -4978 Dropped table cannot be accessed
80D5 -4979 Unable to export the dropped table data
80D6 -1620 1 Unable to flush event monitor because it wasn't started
80D7 -1620 2 Unable to flush event monitor because it is running at a pre-version 6 output level
811E -996 Invalid user-specified directory
812F -290 Access not allowed: table space is quiesced
8130 -290 Access not allowed: table space is load-pending
8131 -290 Access not allowed: table space is delete-pending
8132 -290 Access not allowed: table space is backup-pending
8133 -290 Access not allowed: table space is rollforward-pending
8134 -290 Access not allowed: table space is rollforward-in-progress
8135 -290 Access not allowed: table space is recovery-pending
8136 -290 Access not allowed: table space is disabled
8137 -290 Access not allowed
8138 -291 Invalid state transition
8139 -294 Container is already being used
813A -295 Container names are too long
813B -297 Path name is too long
813C -298 Bad container path
813D -299 Duplicate container
813E -257 Raw device is not allowed
813F -258 Add containers pending
8146 -1442 Bad container size
8173 No dirty buffers
81A7 Invalid alternate
8201 +100 End of file reached
8203 -952 I/O Interrupt
8212 -804 Invalid request
8303 -952 Interrupt
8380 No term
8381 No interrupt
8382 No interrupt
8383 Incompatible release level
8384 Operation not supported
8385 Server/requester migration level incompatible
8386 ASP protocol error
8387 Bad ASP object OBJDSS
8388 Bad FDOCA object
8389 SNA protocol error
838A Invalid SQL request
838B Cursor already open
838C Cursor not open
838D Syntax error
838E Invalid FDOCA descriptor
8390 End of SQLDTAGRP
8394 Parameter Error
8395 Value Error
8396 SQLDA too small
8397 Invalid RPYDSS
8398 Parser syntax error
8399 FDOCA Error
839A End of input
839B Code point not found
839C SQLCODE set in parse
839D Data descriptor mismatch
839E Required parameter not received
839F Bad format
83A0 Duplicate parameters detected
83A3 Translation substitution
8401 +100 End of file reached
8403 -952 Interrupt
8404 -950 Active cursor
8406 -508 Invalid cursor position
842E -659 Check-pending state
8443 -804 General purpose validation error
844B -1477 Table not available because forward recovery encountered no log operation
8451 -680 Too many columns
8502 -911 Deadlock encountered
8503 -1044 Interrupt
8544 -911 Lock timeout with transaction rollback
8550 -913 Lock timeout with statement rollback
856D -902 SQLCA has been built and saved in a component-specific control block
8574 -1035 File open error
8575 -1015 Database needs recovery
8576 -1042 Deadlock start error
8577 Deadlock stop error
8578 -1034 Recovery failed
8579 Conditional conflict
85A1 Backup pending
85A2 Recovery pending
85A4 +993 Invalid new log path
85A5 +995 Invalid current log path
85A6 -1267 Exist file not found
85AA Table space rollforward stopped
85AB I/O error encountered
85AC Duplicate entry
85B3 Missing log extent
85B4 Log extent is of a different size
85B5 -1472 System clock difference exceeds max_time_diff on connect (log synchronization)
85B6 -1473 System clock difference exceeds max_time_diff on commit
85B7 +1474 System clock difference exceeds max_time_diff on commit (read-only)
85B8 -276 Restore pending
85B9 -1275 Invalid stop time for rollforward
85BA -1276 Invalid time to stop rollforward
85BB -4970 Rollforward is missing log files
85BC -4971 Rollforward log is already truncated
85BD -4972 Rollforward log path is full
85BE -4973 Rollforward log mismatch
85BF -4974 Rollforward query error
85C0 -4975 Rollforward cancelled
85C1 -4976 Rollforward not issued on catalog
85C3 -4906 Table space rollforward has invalid table space set
85C4 -1278 Table space rollforward required for rollback
85C5 -1280 Invalid stop time for table space rollforward
8659 Term characters not provided
865A Conversion table not loaded
865B No conversion table exists
865C Invalid target code page
865D Invalid source code page
865F -5123 Invalid code page
8660 -5124 Invalid country code
8661 -5125 Incompatible CP and CC
8662 Invalid stored procedure
8663 Invalid name
8664 Expired password
8665 Bad password
8666 User or group description over 8 characters
8667 User or group ID over 8 characters
8668 Password over 8 characters
8669 Bad group ID
866A Bad user ID
866E Not a descendant
866F SMG started in background
8670 Invalid thread ID
867F -10nn Dropped current directory
86A8 Range too large
86A9 Invalid user name
86AA Owner died
86AB Path error
86AC Programming error
86AD Exit list full
86AE Exit list not found
86AF Services not initialized
870B -138 Invalid SUBSTR parameter
8711 -910 Table or table space drop pending
8712 -804 Invalid request
8713 -804 Bad request context
8714 -804 Invalid section number
8719 -811 Non-unique answer
871D -994 Savepoint error
871E -996 Invalid directory, involving the path length of the REORG directory
874A -1476 Forced rollback on unit of work because of an error on number of log tables
876B Authorization error
876C Authorization with different ID
876D -902 SQLCA has been built and saved in a component-specific control block
877E RDS error
8803 -1044 Interrupt
8905 -803 Duplicate key
8971 Index scan incomplete
897A Index end of file
897B Index internal error
897D User ID suspended
8A72 Compilation error
8B07 -302 Output truncated
8B08 -413 Values out of range
8B09 -304 Conversion overflow converting date or time to character string
8B0A -303 Incompatible types
8B0C -309 Null input invalid
8B0D -305 Null output invalid
8B0E -804 Invalid output type
8B0F -822 Invalid input address
8B10 -802 Math overflow
8B15 -311 Negative SQLDA length
8B16 -301 Incompatible types (dynamic)
8B17 -180 Time or date syntax error
8B18 -181 Time or date range error
8B1A -404 String column overflow
8B1B -406 Numeric column overflow
8B1C -407 Non-nullable column
8B1F -183 Date/time arithmetic result out of range
8B20 -182 Date/time arithmetic duration out of range
8B21 -176 Translate scalar run-time error
8B22 -436 Null term missing on input CSTR
8B47 -304 Conversion overflow (numeric value)
8B48 -302 Numeric value out of range
8B49 -801 Divide by zero operation not allowed
8B4C -420 Invalid input format
8B4D -410 Float string too long
8B4E Null-only truncation
8B4F Date is truncated
8C03 -952 Interrupt
8C05 -803 Duplicate key
9301 Allocation failure
9302 Conversion failure
9303 Transaction processor (TP) not started
9304 TP limit reached
9305 Remote TP exit normal
9306 Allocation failed, attempting retry
9307 Allocation failed, no retry attempted
9308 General allocation error
9309 Conversion failed, no retry attempted
930A TP not started, no retry attempted
930B Remote TP abend
930C Communications Manager not loaded
930D Communications Manager abend
930E Bad security on conversation
930F Unknown APPC error
9310 Communications Manager parameter bad
9311 Communications Manager bad request state
9312 External communications error
9313 Remote TP send error
9332 Invalid name or name number
9333 Invalid session ID
9334 Invalid command
9335 Invalid data
9336 Adapter error
9337 Reset error
9338 Other NetBIOS error
9364 Node environment is corrupted
960C Communications Manager not loaded
960F Generic APPC error
9617 Already connected
9618 Connection in progress
9619 Connection refused
962A Connection timed out
962B Address already in use
962C No connection
962D Socket is bound already
962E Socket is not bound yet
962F Socket not writable/readable yet
9630 Partial message was sent
9631 Partial message was received
9C14 FCM communication error
9C15 FCM node not found
9C16 -1229 Node recovery
A602 -901 Invalid memory address
A603 -901 General memory management error
A604 -901 Memory management error: invalid size
AB01 -901 Internal error
AC01 -901 Internal program error
C107 -986 File error
C109 -8100 Segmented tables, page number too high
C119 -995 EMP indirect not found
C11A -995 EMP map information ended
C11B -995 EMP map information not found
C11C -996 Mapping information should exist, but cannot be found
C11D -292 Cannot create file
C11E -293 Container not accessible
C180 Agent file close error
C201 -970 Access denied
C211 Seek error
C212 Unknown media error
C213 File not found
C214 File already exists
C215 File in use
C216 Invalid file name
C217 Commit failed
C218 Undo failed
C40A -659 Maximum object size reached
C47E Index needs to be recreated
C47F File renamed
C57F File renamed
C601 -970 Access denied
C602 -972 Change disk
C603 -972 Not a DOS disk
C604 -974 Drive locked
C605 -976 Device not ready
C606 -978 File write-protected
C607 -986 File error
C608 -902 Delete directory error
C67C Device is busy
C721 -2423 Missing index during offline backup
C90A Maximum object size reached
CE0B -1614 1 Encountered an unknown event monitor target type
CE0C -1614 2 The event monitor target path was not sent
CE0D -1614 3 Access to event monitor target path was denied
CE0E -1614 4 Event monitor target path is not the name of a pipe
CE0F -1614 5 No process has opened the event monitor target pipe for reading
CE10 -1614 6 Encountered an unexpected I/0 error.
D085
21 Authentication failed due to no user licenses available
D107 -960 No more file tokens
D121 -289 Container full
D122 Exceeded maximum quiescers
D123 -296 Table space limit exceeded
D124 -259 Map too big
D20C -968 Disk full
D21A -930 No memory: UNDO heap
D315 No memory on requester
D316 No memory on server
D31D Vectored I/O request too big
D408 -962 Maximum tables in file
D40D -912 Too many locks
D411 -902 Maximum long field file size
D505 -930 Memory allocation failure
D509 -964 Log file full
D50A -912 Lock list full
D57F -1004 Disk full log file
D601 -954 No memory heap (for application)
D602 -956 No memory heap (for database)
D603 -101 No memory heap
D604 -930 Share buffer exceeded
D605 -930 Memory allocation failure
D606 -958 Too many open files
D607 -960 No more file tokens
D60B -955 No memory sort heap
D60C -968 Disk full
D60D -912 Too many locks
D60E -973 No memory
D610 -902 No memory BSU heap
D612 -953 No memory: AgentHeap
D613 -957, -959
No memory: ComHeap
D614 -961, -962
No memory: RSHeap
D615 No memory: Users/groups
D616 -930 No memory: DrIdx heap
D617 -930 No memory: ASP heap
D619 -930 No memory: Queue heap
D61A -930 No memory: UND heap
D61B -930 No memory: Lock heap
D61C -930 No memory: System heap
D61D -930 No memory
D61E -930 No memory
D620 -930 No memory
D625 -930 No memory
D62B -930 No memory
D67D Shared memory set exists
D67E -9 No memory for DosLoadMod
D905 -930 Memory allocation failure
D90F -990 Index structure problem
DC26 -6042 No FCM MSG_ANCHOR
DC27 -6040 No FCM buffer
DC28 -6041 No FCM connection entry
DC29 -6043 No FCM request block
DC2A -902 No high priority buffer
E101 -980 1 Bad page
E10A -980 10 File does not exist
E10E -982 Bad signature
E119 -1034 Page CHECKSUM error
E11A -1035 Bad database, won't flush it
E11B -980 27 Both primary and shadow ORFs are bad
E11C -980 28 Primary ORF is bad
E11D -980 29 Secondary ORF is bad
E11E -980 30 Both primary and shadow SSFs are bad
E11F -980 31 Primary SSF bad
E120 -980 32 Secondary SSF bad
E40B -980 11 Object does not exist
E50D -980 13 Bad log file
E510 -5123 Error in log control file
E511 -1258 Log control file not found
E512 -1259 I/O error accessing log control file
E513 -1260 Database not recoverable
E514 -1261 Recovery not pending
E515 -1263 Invalid log extent file
E516 -1264 Log extent file does not belong to the database
E517 -1265 Log extent file is the incorrect version
E518 -1266 Point in time prior to recovery
E521 -1034 Recovery failed
E522 -1269 Error while retrieving file during forward recovery
E57F -1036 Adjust log file error
E602 -980 2 CRC error
E603 -980 3 Disk error
E604 -980 4 General failure
E605 -980 5 Read fault
E606 -980 6 Seek error
E607 -980 7 Sector not found
E608 -980 8 Unknown media error
E609 -980 9 Write fault
E60A -980 10 File does not exist
E60C -980 12 Cannot open file
E60F -980 15 Network access denied
E623 -931 Too many open system files
F051 -1042 Invalid log record encountered during redo or undo: unknown component
F102 -902 2 BPS logic error
F103 -902 3 Invalid buffer pointer
F104 -902 4 No buffers
F109 -902 9 Data does not exist
F10A -902 10 File already exists
F10B -902 11 Unfixed buffer page
F10C -902 12 Invalid file token
F10D -902 13 Invalid file type
F110 -902 16 Invalid mode parameter
F117 -902 23 Invalid reference
F121 -902 33 RAM semaphore error
F124 -902 36 Bad configuration file
F136 -902 54 Bad header
F13B -902 59 File not found in the reorg linked list
F149 -902 73 Bad database path
F156 -902 86 Page already exists
F176 -902 118 Invalid pool ID
F17D State already off
F210 -902 16 Invalid mode parameter
F21B -902 27 Bad transaction ID
F225 -902 37 Invalid file handle
F331 -902 49 Bad selector
F33C -902 60 Tokenizer stack overflow
F345 The server STARTDBM failed
F34A -902 74 Node manager thread failed
F34B -902 75 Database is bad
F34C -902 76 Parser stack overflow
F34D -902 77 Token buffer overflow
F34E -902 78 Bad value in code page table
F34F -902 79 Configuration mismatch
F401 -902 1 DMS data file error
F418 -902 24 Bad table handle
F419 -902 25 Bad record ID
F42D -902 45 Reallocation error
F42E -902 46 Set signal error
F42F -902 47 Invalid mode
F432 -902 50 Floating point error
F451 -1042 Invalid log record encountered during redo or undo: bad record length
F455 -902 85 Program error
F47A -902 122 Record deleted
F47C -902 124 Missing defaults
F51B -902 27 Bad transaction ID
F51C -902 28 Log file overflow
F51D -902 29 Fatal logic error
F51E -902 30 No active transaction
F51F -902 31 Maximum save points
F520 -902 32 No active save point
F527 -902 39 Bad record type
F528 -902 40 Transaction ID table overflow
F529 -902 41 Invalid LSN
F52A -902 42 Transaction already started
F550 -902 80 Database in recovery mode
F605 -1068 Message file not found
F606 -1068 Message not found
F609 -902 9 Data does not exist
F60A -902 10 File already exists
F60B -902 11 Unfixed buffer page
F60C -902 12 Invalid file token
F60D -902 13 Invalid file type
F60E -902 14 Lock violation
F60F -902 15 Directory overflow
F610 -902 16 Invalid mode parameter
F611 -902 17 Invalid path
F612 -902 18 Invalid page number
F613 -902 19 Sector boundary error
F614 -902 20 System internal error
F616 -902 22 File sharing error
F617 -902 23 Invalid reference
F61A -902 26 Invalid selector
F621 -902 33 RAM semaphore error
F622 -902 34 Access error
F624 -902 36 Bad configuration file
F625 -902 37 Invalid file handle
F626 -902 38 No file descriptor
F631 -902 49 Bad selector
F635 -902 53 Conditional failure
F637 -902 55 Infinite retry
F638 -902 56 Stored procedure not found
F639 -902 57 Invalid drive
F63A -902 58 Bad heap ID
F63D -902 61 Duplicate queue
F63E -902 62 Bad queue handle
F63F -902 63 Queue message too big
F640 -902 64 No message in queue
F641 -902 65 Message not sent
F642 -902 66 Queue does not exist
F643 -902 67 Max queue limit
F644 -902 68 Invalid queue name
F690 DB2NODE environment variable has a bad value
F691 The db2nodes.cfg file contains an error
F730 -902 48 Invalid file
F733 -902 51 Invalid compile request
F85F -902 95 Generic LOB manager error
F860 -902 96 Cannot redo operation
F861 -902 97 Beginning segment (BSEG) already trimmed
F862 -902 98 Insufficient space
F863 -902 99 No mini directory
F864 -902 100 Invalid LM descriptor
F865 -902 101 Invalid address
F866 -902 102 LF space exhausted
F867 -902 103 BSEG size/address conflict
F868 -902 104 BSEG not free or allocated
F869 -902 105 Incorrect BSEG size
F86A -902 106 BSEG not free
F86B -902 107 Bad count array
F86C -902 108 Lock error
F86D -902 109 Not found error
F86E -902 110 Value out of bounds
F86F -902 111 Unexpected NULL value
F870 -902 112 Encountered fatal error
F871 -902 113 Bad state
F872 -902 114 Request too big
F873 No slots for threads
F874 Thread not waiting
F875 Owner died
F87B Too many active threads
F912 -902 18 Invalid page number
F915 -902 21 Memory allocation error
F92B -902 43 Index token does not exist
F92C -902 44 Key not found
F952 -902 82 SMP problems
F953 -902 83 Invalid database release
F954 -902 84 Program error
FB2E -902 46 Set signal error
FC07 -902 7 Severe internal error
FC21 -902 33 RAM semaphore error
FC7E -902 126 Component interface error
FC7F -902 127 FCM programming error
FC80 -902 128 FCM daemon not available
FC81 -902 129 FCM node configuration file error
FC88 -902 136 BDS communication error
FC89 -902 137 BDS partner error
FC8F -1445 No Context
FD8A -902 138 Invalid partition map ID
FD8B -902 139 Not able to fetch from catalog
FD8C -902 140 Invalid data type
FD8D Invalid partition number
FD8E PMAP is of a 1-node nodegroup
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