"McKown, John" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>. .. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:03 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? > > > > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:24:28 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: > > > > > >One thing that absolutely should NOT be part of this kind of tool > > >would be the ability to allocate a dataset on top of the old deleted > > >dataset and access the data. This would be a huge security hole > > >(as others have said in this thread). > > > > > Doesn't that happen anyway, routinely, anytime someone > > codes DISP=NEW? > > > > -- gil > > Very true. We've had programmers start screaming because they run a compile & link. The compile fails and so does not write its output. But they didn't check the RC and did the link anyway. Just by happenstance, the compiler output dataset was allocated to a section of DASD which contained the output from a different compile. And so the link SUCCEEDED but did not have their program in the library. And they were confused as <anything>! > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT
This only true for non-SMS datasets. Are you not running SMS? How many sites are still running without SMS? We converted 20 years ago. Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

