What does Windows error code 6703 (ERROR_TRANSACTION_NOT_REQUESTED) mean?

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Description: A KTM response was issued although no matching request notification was delivered.

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ERROR_TRANSACTION_NOT_REQUESTED

ERROR_TRANSACTION_NOT_REQUESTED is a protocol-pairing error. A resource manager or superior transaction manager has called a response API even though KTM did not issue the corresponding request. In KTM, responses such as completion or vote operations are reactions to specific notifications, not free-standing commands.

What to verify

Capture the received TRANSACTION_NOTIFICATION value before dispatching the callback.
Associate the notification with the exact enlistment handle passed to the response function.
Do not infer a missing request from local transaction state; wait for the notification KTM actually delivered.
Make callback handling idempotent so a delayed, cancelled, or duplicate work item cannot send a second response.

This is different from a normal transaction abort. The failure says that the response has no request-side basis in the KTM protocol, so retrying the same response without a newly received notification does not fix it.

See GetNotificationResourceManager, the notification mask definitions, and the KTM function groups.

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