Binyamin, Your suggestion worked by using RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760. Thanks a million. Thanks to all my Gentle Readers for your contribution. Great group you all are.
From: Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:49:35 PM Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR The DCB can be changed to RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760. That will guarantee that members can be read. After looking at a few members, the correct values can be determined. On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:59:04 +0000 "Mingee, David" <[email protected]> wrote: :>Also, RECFM could have been changed to RECFM=U vs. FB if an inappropriate task was executed against this file. :> :>-----Original Message----- :>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.) :>Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:49 PM :>To: [email protected] :>Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR :> :>Do you know what the LRECL is/should be? :>Can you read any members? :> :>Dennis Roach :>GHG Corporation :>Lockheed Martin Mission Services :>Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC :>Address: :> 2100 Space Park Drive :> LM-15-4BH :> Houston, Texas 77058 :>Mail: :> P.O. Box 58487 :> Mail Code H4C :> Houston, Texas 77258-8487 :>Phone: :> Voice: (281)336-5027 :> Cell: (713)591-1059 :> Fax: (281)336-5410 :>E-Mail: [email protected] :> :>All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. :> :>-----Original Message----- :>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of esmie moo :>Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:41 PM :>To: [email protected] :>Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR :> :>John, :> :>I followed your example it add the member JUNK to the pds and I was able to browse the member JUNK which has the X in it. However, the rest of the members still give the I/O error. I know that am sounding thick however I am not sure as to what I should do for the other members. Could you give me an example? :> :>From: "McKown, John" <[email protected]> :>To: [email protected] :>Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:22:20 PM :>Subject: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR :> :>The "X" is just junk instream data to put into the member JUNK. What it is doesn't matter. I just put it there for completeness. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

