The /[NO]INITIALIZE_HANDLES qualifier lets you control whether RDML will initialize RDML-supplied database, transaction, and request handles. Use of the /NOINITIALIZE_HANDLES qualifier allows you to link a main image against a shareable image and share handles between the two. Format: /INITIALIZE_HANDLES (Default) /NOINITIALIZE_HANDLES These qualifiers have no effect on whether or when handles are cleared in the generated code; they only control initialization of handles in declarations. Furthermore, they only affect database, transaction and request handles that RDML declares. User-specified transaction and request handles will not be initialized when you use the /INITIALIZE_HANDLES qualifier. RDML will initialize database handles when their scope is GLOBAL or LOCAL. EXTERNAL scope database handles are never initialized.