Solution : https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/144325 (SAP Service marketplace login required)
Summary : 
      This SAP Note summarizes issues addressed in various patches for SAPDBA version 4.6A, with specific focus on enhancements like full restore tablespace extensions, recovery status checks, and other optimizations (e.g., for Oracle version determination and SQL loader operations). The note advises Patch 35 as the final update for this version, urging migration to version 4.6B. Key tools affected include BRARCHIVE, BRBACKUP, and BRCONNECT. The solution entails downloading the latest patch from the specified sapserv host directory aligned with corresponding platform and OS requirements.
Key words : 
/general/r3server/patches/rel46a/<platform>/<os>/orathe exact procedure, checking type                          ora   18  1999-11-05  182519  move data files, patch   date          note    text-----  -------  -----------------------------------------------------    1  1999-07-27  164771  tablespace extensions, execute os command   30  2000-01-28  197560  bad format, checking recovery status    3  1999-07-30  165380  recovery terminates, detail brbackup log file   31  2000-02-02  198438  cbo, make named pipe   20  1999-11-10  183505  warning, regular file   29  2000-01-27  197203  internal error, 64 bit                           platforms   33  2000-02-16  201365  fseek error, 7  1999-08-24  164680  loading long raw columns
Related Notes : 
       
| 204415 | CBO: Completed analysis with status 'STARTED' | 
| 204413 | CBO: Analysis ends with return code 9999 | 
| 201365 | SAPDBA: Error in determining RawDevices size | 
| 198438 | CBO: TODO flag in DBSTATC is not deleted | 
| 197560 | SAPDBA: Bad format in detail BRBACKUP log file | 
| 197493 | CBO: incorrect log output on 64 bit platforms | 
| 197203 | SAPDBA:Internal error: can't execute OS command | 
| 196781 | SAPDBA: compress: expTSP.dmp is not a regular file | 
| 193686 | SAPDBA: <sidadm> does not have DBA authorization | 
| 188495 | CBO:Alert - missg statistics for POOL/CLUSTER indxs | 
| 186759 | SAPDBA: Error altering storage of ... | 
| 183505 | SAPDBA: Warning with popen() | 
| 183500 | SAPDBA: Cannot make named pipe | 
| 182519 | SAPDBA: Move datafiles - error in shell script | 
| 178477 | Corrections for some problems in SAPDBA/recoveries | 
| 173813 | SAPDBA: VIEW text with incorrect line break | 
| 169925 | CBO: double entries in DBSTATC | 
| 169921 | CBO: ACTIV='U' has no effect | 
| 169552 | SAPDBA: ORA-25102 (invalid PARALLEL option) | 
| 164680 | SAPDBA: Loading LONG RAW columns with SQL*Loader | 
| 143288 | SAPDBA: Super collective note | 
| 126769 | Corrections in SAPDBA and in BR programs | 
| 19466 | Downloading SAP kernel patches | 
| 12741 | Current versions of BR*Tools and SAPDBA |