We always had a separate recovery system to IPL which did not depend on any normal volume or dataset. We could, and occasionally did, recover from IPL failures, usually self-induced, related to the master catalog, spool, page datasets, critical STCs, PARMLIB, PROCLIB, RACF permissions, etc. We rolled our own but at least one contributor here has publicized a one-pack system that can be used by most any site for this purpose
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Richard Pinion > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 9:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) > > Yeah, but what about breaking the VTAM and worse yet the JES2 procs? > > > > --- [email protected] wrote: > > From: Bob Shannon <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) > Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 16:33:31 +0000 > > > We keep a TSO rescue proc with '911' in the name. It lives in SYS1.PROCLIB > > away from > the standard location for TSO procs > > We do something similar, but often it's easier to FTP the broken logon proc > to a PC, edit it, > and FTP it back to the host. > > Bob Shannon > Rocket Software > ================================ > Rocket Software, Inc. and subsidiaries ■ 77 Fourth Avenue, Waltham MA 02451 ■ > +1 > 800.966.3270 ■ +1 781.577.4321 > Unsubscribe From Commercial Email – [email protected] > Manage Your Subscription Preferences - > http://info.rocketsoftware.com/GlobalSubscriptionManagementEmailFooter_SubscriptionCe > nter.html > Privacy Policy - http://www.rocketsoftware.com/company/legal/privacy-policy > ================================ > > This communication and any attachments may contain confidential information > of Rocket > Software, Inc. All unauthorized use, disclosure or distribution is > prohibited. If you are not > the intended recipient, please notify Rocket Software immediately and destroy > all copies of > this communication. Thank you. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > Netscape. Just the Net You Need. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
