Actually, while IBM's IFASMFDP would fail with ABEND 002 on a broken VBS segment or block, even the first public version of SAS, in October, 1972, when it was still distributed in source code from the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University, could read and recover SMF VBS files with broken segments, thanks to the brilliant implementation by Tony Barr.
Barry -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FW: I/O Optimization Barry Merrill wrote: >NOT PARTICULARLY EFFICIENT, but met the requirments. Of course. It is also not efficient when you need to recover lost SMF data. One broken record or block and the rest of the dataset are lost. [1] Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - I believe there is a program somewhere on the CBTTAPE which you can use to repair broken VBS datasets. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
