I once repaired a PDS with a damaged directory. I opened it (with an ASSEMBLER program) as a normal sequential file and wrote every line to another PDS with member namens like M0000001, M0000002, and so on. On every end-of-file condition, I stopped the current member in the target PDS and started a new one (until SYNAD signaled the "true" end-of-file of the PDS).
This way I was able to restore all the members in the damaged PDS. But two problems remained: - I got the deleted members, too - I had to find a way to restore the original member names by examining the contents (this was the difficult part of the task). But the PDS was very important: it contained all the program descriptions of the last 10 years. The problem was: there were two departments, and each of them believed that the other one does the daily backup. In fact, no backup was done :-( Kind regards Bernd Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 15:24 schrieben Sie: > > Is there a way to repair this PDS? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
