2512231 - QUIESCE DATABASE fails with 'Waiting for multi-database prepared transaction to complete' -SAP ASE for BS

• A QUIESCE DATABASE fails
• After several warnings "Waiting for multi-database prepared transactions to complete" are printed in the ASE error log
• Followed by error 2236 indicating the quiesce timed out
• ASE log entries show: 
  
  Processes trying to issue an I/O operation on the quiesced database(s) will be suspended until the user executes a QUIESCE DATABASE command with the RELEASE option.
  QUIESCE DATABASE command with tag dbname_tagname is being executed by process 538.
  QUIESCE DATABASE: Waiting for multi-database prepared transactions to complete. Retry count: 1.
  QUIESCE DATABASE: Waiting for multi-database prepared transactions to complete. Retry count: 2.
  ...
  QUIESCE DATABASE: Waiting for multi-database prepared transactions to complete. Retry count: 17.
  Error: 2236, Severity: 16, State: 1
  Process 538 is aborted by QUIESCE DATABASE, as transactions in a prepare state did not finish within the prescribed time limit.
  
  
• In Business Suite systems it may be followed by error 12205:
  
  Error: 12205, Severity: 17, State: 2
  Could not acquire a lock within the specified wait period. SERVER level wait period=1800 seconds, spid=16, lock type=shared

• SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 
• SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) for Business Suite

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