When the Dynamic Dump begins, by default it prevents new transactions from beginning and waits indefinitely for open transactions to complete. Once no transactions are active, a dump checkpoint is created, the dump creation begins, and transactions are allowed to resume. If the dump script option !DELAY <N> is specified, the Dynamic Dump waits up to N seconds for active transactions to complete before terminating them. This revision allows !DELAY <N> with N < 0 to cause the dump be abandoned with error DUMP_ABANDONED_ERR (1162) if active transactions still remain after |N| seconds.