Rich Fotchman of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 03/14/2008 11:49:14 AM:
> -----------------------<snip>------------------ > > >I have a problem that I hope someone has come across before and has or knows > >of a utility to program that will help me out. > > > >I have a corrupt IMS Referral library and it seems to have been corrupted > >for a long time. I have no good back ups of it. It has over 14,000 members > >and looking at it there seems to be a very large number that are NG. > > > >I am thing that if I can read the first record of each member and compare it > >to the member name I will be able to delete all the bad members. Then it > >will be up to the development team to add any missing members. > > > > > --------------------<unsnip>------------------ > Check out the RECOVER function of PDS. Members without directory > pointers are given a new directory entry with a screwball name. This > will allow you to examine each (deleted) member. If your examination can > tell you the proper member name, you can just rename it to the correct name. > > Download the PDS utility from <www.cbttape.org>; be sure you get the > latest and greatest. Installation is a piece of cake. > You should download PDS from the updates page to get the latest version (8.6.08). http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/updates/CBT182.zip Regards, John K ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
