CDD maintenance / Allow DROP TABLE DESCRIPTION when ADABAS DB is Down

Our DBAs dropped a ADABAS DB, so the nucleus was no longer active (not running).

My task was to DROP all CLUSTER and TABLE DESCRIPTIONS for this Database, and finally do a DROP DATABASE.

The DDL for DROP CLUSTER DESCRIPTIONS was executed without any problems

The DDL for DROP TABLE DESCRIPTIONS caused an error "Database not accessable"

The DLL for DROP DATABASE was executed without any problems

To me it makes no sense that the DROP TABLE DESCRIPTION requires a running DB, whereas DROP CLUSTER DESCRIPTION and DROP DATABASE work well.

Pls. see the ACEINT log for details.