> I'd STRONGLY recommend you find a way to never delete a
> CATINDEX (or the
> catalog data component).
Indeed!!!
I would be remiss in not publicly acknowledging
the help I got from Dino-software and their xlnt
T-REXX product. 'Twould've been a very ugly situation
otherwise. Thanks Larry. (fsck, hah!)
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Thomen
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:22 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: CATINDEX
>
> ""Jeff Horenstein"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > A CATINDEX was accidentally deleted from a non-SMS
> > volume. Surprisingly (to me) datasets cat'd in the related
> > catalog can still be accessed. New vsam/nvsam datasets can
> > be cat'd/deleted w/o apparent problems. DIAGNOSEs against
> > the catalog get OPEN errors; yet EXAMINE DTEST of datasets
> > cat'd in the catalog are clean. The VVDS is not happy,
> > but vsam datasets on the volume pass DTEST (but not
> > DIAG VVDS COMPAREDD -- "REASON: 31 - OPEN OF COMPARE
> > DATA SET FAILED".
> > I don't see a REBUILDCATINDEX parameter anywhere. I haven't tried
> > EXPORT/IMPORT to a new cat, del/redef bad cat, then back to
> > the redef'd cat. Will that work? Is there something else I
> > can do?
> > Any help appreciated, Jeff
>
> My guess is it was deleted from another system. The catalog
> is open on the
> current system and still has access to the extents, so it will work.
> However if those extents get overlaid with a new data set,
> you're hosed.
>
> I'd STRONGLY recommend you find a way to never delete a
> CATINDEX (or the
> catalog data component).
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Thomen
> Catalog/IDCAMS/VSAM Development
>
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