Well, try to IMPORT the back-up on a test system or different name and see what happens.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of willie bunter > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 10:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: REASON: 3 - RECORD TYPE NOT RECOGNIZED > > I was told that EXPORT/IMPORT would not fix the problem because it would > export the bad records only REPOR MERGECAT would work. > > I ran a LISTCAT on the dataset (as flagged by the DIAGNOSE) and it came > clean. This leads me to believe that it may not be the offending dsn. The > dsn > is on the volumes (3) > > The catalog is backed up via IDCAMS EXPORT daily successfully. > > I plan to run a VERIFY/EXAMINE (as recommended) and see what comes out. > > -------------------------------------------- > On Wed, 9/14/16, retired mainframer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Subject: Re: REASON: 3 - RECORD TYPE NOT RECOGNIZED > To: [email protected] > Received: Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 12:37 PM > > REPRO MERGECAT does not > seem like the best choice to me. It might work for a user catalog since the > DSN is not needed by users to access their datasets. For every level that is > moved, you need to change the alias in the master to relate to the new DSN. > (This is what the warning is about.) What will REPRO do when it encounters > the bad record? > > It's been a while but I seem to remember using EXPORT followed by IMPORT > for issues like this. Don't forget to lock the catalog for the job's > duration. (You may need to do this during scheduled down time without > users accessing the catalog.) > > What happens if you try to > access the dataset by way of the catalog, such as specifying it on a DD > statement? Have you tried to manually delete and recreate the offending > catalog entry? Is the dataset physically on the volume the catalog thinks > it's > on? > > From where > would you restore the catalog? How was it backed up? If by DFDSS, was it a > physical or logical backup? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] > On > > Behalf Of willie bunter > > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 4:33 AM > To: IBM- > [email protected] > Subject: Re: REASON: 3 - RECORD TYPE NOT > RECOGNIZED > > The DIAGNOSE gives the same error and no change. I ran > examine (using the following > parms) and " > NO ERRORS DETECTED" > > > > INDEXTEST DATATEST > > > ITEST NODATATEST ERRORLIMIT(1000) > > > NOITEST DATATEST ERRORLIMIT(1000) > > > > I ran LISTCAT against the CATALOG and it flagged the same VSAM dsn > posting the > following error messages: > > IEC331I > 028-002,LISTCAT ,STEP1 ,IGG0CLEG > > According to the problem explanation > > Explanation: An I/O error processing > the > > catalog occurred while processing > an access > > method services command that > requires > > modifying the catalog. > > Programmer Response: Messages IEC331I, > IEC332I, and IEC333I have > been printed to aid > in determining the cause of the error and > where > the error occurred. If a hardware error > is not causing the problem, > restore or > rebuild the catalog. > > > > I have > read up on the process of rebuilding the catalog (REPRO > MERGECAT) however > > there could be a > problem when using LEVEL or ENTRIES parm. According to the doc > "may > cause data sets to no longer be found". This is not reassuring. > > > > I would prefer to > restore the CATALOG which seems safer. I would like guidance on this > > subject. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
