Bad news, good news here. First the bad, for the IMS referral library, the library (along with IMS.FORMAT) is supposed to be updated by the MFSUTL process, not IEBCOPY. IMS.REFERAL is also used as input to MFSUTL process for verification that all device type formats are being created/changed properly. Good news is it sounds like your users are yusing some other set of FORMAT/REFERAL libraries and copying the results to your 'production' libraries, so maybe identifying those libraries might be possible. In any case, the really good news is while it may be convenient for verification purposes to have the referral library when doing MFSUTL, you don't really need one (make it a temporary data set when running MFSUTL) so if your recovery is not possible, maybe just erase it and start over.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Stocker, Herman < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the help. > > I think it was corrupted with a compress share operation or two > people/jobs > doing a copy. this could of happened any number of times since there are > so > many members that have been damaged. > > I am not able to compress or copy it. I am having trouble using superc to > locate the good members. > > I'll Try the PDS command with Verify, after I get it downloaded and > installed. > > Thanks again. > > Regards, > Herman Stocker > Technical Specialist > Data Center Operations > avis budget group > Phone: 1973-496-4847 > fax: 1973-496-8201 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > Of Dave Kopischke > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 2:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Any Utility that will allow correction of a corroupt library > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:49:14 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: > > >>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. > >> > > Any idea how it got corrupted in the first place ??? I had a PDS get > reblocked a few weeks ago and that essentially corrupted the PDS. If you > have some members corrupted and some not, this might be the same issue. > IEBCOPY it to a NEW PDS using DCB parameters with larger block sizes on > both > input and output and see if you recover the bad ones. You might have to > keep > trying multiples of LRECL to get a combination that works 100%. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > The sender believes that this E-mail and any attachments were free of any > virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. This message > and > its attachments could have been infected during transmission. By reading > the > message and opening any attachments, the recipient accepts full > responsibility for taking protective and remedial action about viruses and > other defects. The sender's employer is not liable for any loss or damage > arising in any way from this message or its attachments. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
