well sort of. our intrepid storage person ran the jcl at the end of
this email to initialize dasd. to my chagrin, it included the three
physical volumes in a linux logical volume group. is there any hope of
recreating the vtoc and reliably rescuing the data?
//DISKINT1 JOB (C110,2,000,SYS,22822,K),'CARTWRIGHT 3/A',CLASS=S,
// MSGCLASS=Q,NOTIFY=U22822
/*JOBPARM R=3A
//* $ACFJ219 ACF2 ACTIVE OKDHSJES
//***********************************************************
//*
//* JCL IN U22822.DSF.CNTL
//* PACK MUST BE VARRIED OFF LINE
//*
//************************************************************
//SCRATCH EXEC PGM=ICKDSF
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=$
//SYSIN DD *
INIT UNIT(1411) /* INITIALIZES DISK PACK SHORT VERS */ +
VOLID(DA1411) /* WRITES VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER */ +
NOCHECK /* WRITES OVER ALL EXISTING DATA */ +
NOVERIFY /* BYPASS VERIFY VOL SER OWNER ID */ +
NOVALIDATE /* BYPASS VALIDATE */ +
VTOC(0,1,674) /* VTOC FOR MANY RDS DATASETS AT 674 TRKS */ +
INDEX(45,0,90) /* INDEX AT CYL 45 TRACK 0 LENGTH 90 TRKS */
/*
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