You have yet to provide the precise text of the i/o error message. Have you confirmed the LRECL and RECFM are as expected? Do you have PDS from the CBT tape or STARTOOLS?
Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of esmie moo > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR > > > > I tried it but when I try the copy command it gives me the I/O error. Thanks > for your suggestion. > > From: John Mattson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:16:05 PM > Subject: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR > > Create a new larger pds. Use ISPF option 3.3 to copy any members... one > at a time... as you can. That should save some > PRINT the data set and that may show you "some parts" of the missing > members in a flat file > Finally try to compress it. Compress may save it... or totally destroy > it. > So, exactly WHY are you not backing this thing up ? Naughty boy. > > > > From: esmie moo <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 07/26/2011 10:03 AM > Subject: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > > > Good Morning Gentle Readers, > > When I try to browse a member of my pds I get a I/O error. I tried > browsing several members but I get the same error message. Is there a way > of fixing it? For some reason the storage group is NOT backed up so I > cannot restore it from an old backup. I recovered the PDS from a DFHSM > backup but when I try to browse any members I still get the I/O error. Is > there a work around to this problem or should I consider it lost? > > Thanks. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

