On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:56 PM, J O Skip Robinson <[email protected] > wrote:
> I remember doing pretty much the same thing. We had a command/program to > do the dirty deed. Thought I remembered that that method stopped working > with the advent of indexed VTOC... > I _think_ that the DEL NVR takes care of the VTOC index as well as the VTOC. The nuclear option is to re-initialize the pack after moving all the good data off of it. Fly, met napalm strike. > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobile > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 1:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to delete a broken catalog > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:45 PM, J O Skip Robinson < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > Without delving into the saga of how we got here, a week ago a whole > > bunch of ICF catalogs turned up missing their index component > cat-name.CATINDEX. > > We recovered most of them. One is still broken, but there is nothing > > of value there. I just want it to go away. Rather than beg the storage > > folks to recover it just for deletion, I'd like to just expunge. But > > when I try DEL cat-name on the BCS, I get > > > > IDC3009I ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 14 - REASON CODE IS > > IGG0CLFK-0 > > > > This message kindly tells me that the catalog is broken, specifically > > missing a 'required cell'. No kidding. Anyone know a heavy handed > > method to just smash it to smithereens? > > > > My heavy handed method from the dark past was to zap the VTOC to change > the DSORG to PS and then delete it with IEHPROGM. Today, I would use DEL > NVR after the ZAP instead of IEHPROGM. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- If you sent twitter messages while exploring, are you on a textpedition? He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
