The /[NO]INITIALIZE_HANDLES qualifier allow you to control whether RDBPRE will initialize RDBPRE-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 RDBPRE declares. User-specified transaction and request handles will not be initialized when you use the /INITIALIZE_HANDLES qualifier. In RDBPRE when you use the /NOINITIALIZE_HANDLES qualifier, any handle you specify in your application program must also be specified in the shareable image.