Thanks so much Lizette and Lionel.  In my case, it was SYSPRINT of IDCAMS that 
'reconfigured' the PDS file, followed by edit of the sysprint output members. 
Believe me , the 'sandbox' is now backed up daily.   

.
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 7:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] RFE opened on IEBGENER and PDS Corruption

Cool.

I will see if I can append to the RFE.

Lizette

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 9:02 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] RFE opened on IEBGENER and PDS Corruption
> 
> I like the idea of the RFE but could I suggest broadening it to all 
> BSAM/QSAM since any program that writes output could do the same 
> thing.  Put the test in the access method to prevent writing a 
> sequential dataset on top of a partitioned dataset.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Lionel B. Dyck (TRA Contractor)
> Mainframe Systems Programmer
> Enterprise Infrastructure Support (Station 200) (005OP6.3.10) VA OI&T 
> Service Delivery & Engineering
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 10:59 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] RFE opened on IEBGENER and PDS Corruption
> 
> After the discussion this week on recovering a PDS after IEBGENER was 
> used without a member on SYSUT2, I went ahead and opened the following 
> RFE (I did not find any currently in RFE on this)
> 
> If you like it, please vote for it
> 
> It is asking IBM to put a test into IEBGENER to see if SYSUT2 is a PDS 
> or PDSE.
> And if it is, and no member is specified on the SYSUT2, to terminate 
> the step with an RC12 and message about a PDS and no member name supplied.
> 
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=9
> 0179
> 
> 
> Lizette Koehler
> statistics: A precise and logical method for stating a half-truth 
> inaccurately
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