Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR
Paul, I tried your suggestion, here is a sample of what I received: ** VERIFY ADBTS BLOCK LENGTH OF 20,960 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 20,960 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL ** VERIFY ALTERTS BLOCK LENGTH OF 21,360 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 21,360 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL ** VERIFY ALTABLE BLOCK LENGTH OF 27,920 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 27,920 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL ** VERIFY GRANT BLOCK LENGTH OF 8,240 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 8,240 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL Could you tell me what I should do? From: Paul Strauss strau...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:15:35 PM Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR If you have PDS or PDS85 on the system it may help. You can run it in batch like this: //TSO EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //* STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN= load library where PDS is //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD * PDS ' put bad pds here ' VERIFY : This command with the : says to read all members and list the bad ones. END // I'm not sure what you'll get if the dataset looks like a flat file if the directory was written over, but it may tell you something. If any members can be read, it will tell you which ones are the bad ones and you can then create an IEBCOPY job with an Exclude for all the bad members and copy the good members to a new dataset.. Thank You, Paul Strauss Integrated Technology Delivery, Global Services, IBM L0DB z/OS MVS/Program Products/Security 150 Kettletown Rd. Southbury, CT 06488 (203) 272-2758 strau...@us.ibm.com | | From: | | --| |Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com | --| | | To: | | --| |IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu | --| | | Date: | | --| |07/26/2011 02:50 PM | --| | | Subject: | | --| |Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR | --| | | Sent by: | | --| |IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu | --| The DCB can be changed to RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760. That will guarantee that members can be read. After looking at a few members, the correct values can be determined. On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:59:04 + Mingee, David david.min...@libertymutual.com wrote: :Also, RECFM could have been changed to RECFM=U vs. FB if an inappropriate task was executed against this file. : :-Original Message- :From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.) :Sent
Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR
Binyamin, Your suggestion worked by using RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760. Thanks a million. Thanks to all my Gentle Readers for your contribution. Great group you all are. From: Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:49:35 PM Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR The DCB can be changed to RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760. That will guarantee that members can be read. After looking at a few members, the correct values can be determined. On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:59:04 + Mingee, David david.min...@libertymutual.com wrote: :Also, RECFM could have been changed to RECFM=U vs. FB if an inappropriate task was executed against this file. : :-Original Message- :From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.) :Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:49 PM :To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR : :Do you know what the LRECL is/should be? :Can you read any members? : :Dennis Roach :GHG Corporation :Lockheed Martin Mission Services :Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC :Address: : 2100 Space Park Drive : LM-15-4BH : Houston, Texas 77058 :Mail: : P.O. Box 58487 : Mail Code H4C : Houston, Texas 77258-8487 :Phone: : Voice: (281)336-5027 : Cell: (713)591-1059 : Fax: (281)336-5410 :E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com : :All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. : :-Original Message- :From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo :Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:41 PM :To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR : :John, : :I followed your example it add the member JUNK to the pds and I was able to browse the member JUNK which has the X in it. However, the rest of the members still give the I/O error. I know that am sounding thick however I am not sure as to what I should do for the other members. Could you give me an example? : :From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com :To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:22:20 PM :Subject: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR : :The X is just junk instream data to put into the member JUNK. What it is doesn't matter. I just put it there for completeness. -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR
I would issue the PDS FIXPDS subcommand to change the DCB attributes, followed by a VERIFY subcommand. Assuming the LRECL is 80 based on the block lengths from your previous VERIFY. pds 'name.of.dsname' fixpds recfm(fb) lrecl(80) blksize(27920) verify : end Regards, John K From: esmie moo esmie_...@yahoo.ca To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/27/2011 07:01 AM Subject:Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR Paul, I tried your suggestion, here is a sample of what I received: ** VERIFY ADBTS BLOCK LENGTH OF 20,960 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 20,960 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL ** VERIFY ALTERTS BLOCK LENGTH OF 21,360 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 21,360 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL ** VERIFY ALTABLE BLOCK LENGTH OF 27,920 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 27,920 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL ** VERIFY GRANT BLOCK LENGTH OF 8,240 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 8,240 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL Could you tell me what I should do? From: Paul Strauss strau...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:15:35 PM Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR If you have PDS or PDS85 on the system it may help. You can run it in batch like this: //TSO EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //* STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN= load library where PDS is //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD * PDS ' put bad pds here ' VERIFY : This command with the : says to read all members and list the bad ones. END // I'm not sure what you'll get if the dataset looks like a flat file if the directory was written over, but it may tell you something. If any members can be read, it will tell you which ones are the bad ones and you can then create an IEBCOPY job with an Exclude for all the bad members and copy the good members to a new dataset.. Thank You, Paul Strauss Integrated Technology Delivery, Global Services, IBM L0DB z/OS MVS/Program Products/Security 150 Kettletown Rd. Southbury, CT 06488 (203) 272-2758 strau...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR
John, Thanks. I tried out your suggestion and it worked like a charm. Thanks again. From: John P Kalinich jkali...@csc.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 8:22:36 AM Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR I would issue the PDS FIXPDS subcommand to change the DCB attributes, followed by a VERIFY subcommand. Assuming the LRECL is 80 based on the block lengths from your previous VERIFY. pds 'name.of.dsname' fixpds recfm(fb) lrecl(80) blksize(27920) verify : end Regards, John K From: esmie moo esmie_...@yahoo.ca To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/27/2011 07:01 AM Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR Paul, I tried your suggestion, here is a sample of what I received: ** VERIFY ADBTS BLOCK LENGTH OF 20,960 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 20,960 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL ** VERIFY ALTERTS BLOCK LENGTH OF 21,360 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 21,360 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL ** VERIFY ALTABLE BLOCK LENGTH OF 27,920 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 27,920 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL ** VERIFY GRANT BLOCK LENGTH OF 8,240 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 8,240 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL Could you tell me what I should do? From: Paul Strauss strau...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:15:35 PM Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR If you have PDS or PDS85 on the system it may help. You can run it in batch like this: //TSO EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //* STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN= load library where PDS is //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD * PDS ' put bad pds here ' VERIFY : This command with the : says to read all members and list the bad ones. END // I'm not sure what you'll get if the dataset looks like a flat file if the directory was written over, but it may tell you something. If any members can be read, it will tell you which ones are the bad ones and you can then create an IEBCOPY job with an Exclude for all the bad members and copy the good members to a new dataset.. Thank You, Paul Strauss Integrated Technology Delivery, Global Services, IBM L0DB z/OS MVS/Program Products/Security 150 Kettletown Rd. Southbury, CT 06488 (203) 272-2758 strau...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR
---snip Paul, I tried your suggestion, here is a sample of what I received: ** VERIFY ADBTS BLOCK LENGTH OF 20,960 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 20,960 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL ** VERIFY ALTERTS BLOCK LENGTH OF 21,360 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 21,360 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL ** VERIFY ALTABLE BLOCK LENGTH OF 27,920 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 27,920 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL ** VERIFY GRANT BLOCK LENGTH OF 8,240 EXCEEDS THE DATA SET DCB BLKSIZE BLOCK LENGTH OF 8,240 IS NOT DIVISIBLE BY THE DCB LRECL Could you tell me what I should do? -unsnip--- Those values all indicate, to me, that the correct attributes are RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=27920. Try setting them thusly and see what transpires. Here's one way to do it: //RUN EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSPRINT DD DUMMY //SYSIN DD DUMMY //SYSUT1 DD DUMMY,RECFN=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=80 //SYSUT2 DD DSN=pds-name(GARBAGE),DISP=SHR, // RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=27920 Member GARBAGE can be deleted at your leisure. Rick -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR
Do you know what the LRECL is/should be? Can you read any members? Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258-8487 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax:(281)336-5410 E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR John, I followed your example it add the member JUNK to the pds and I was able to browse the member JUNK which has the X in it. However, the rest of the members still give the I/O error. I know that am sounding thick however I am not sure as to what I should do for the other members. Could you give me an example? From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:22:20 PM Subject: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR The X is just junk instream data to put into the member JUNK. What it is doesn't matter. I just put it there for completeness. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . john.mck...@healthmarkets.com . www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR John, Just to clarify, you have an X do I include it? Also, I noticed that you the SYSUT2 has the PDS name as well as the member name (JUNK). Could you tell me what it is for? From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:13:12 PM Subject: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR I had this happen in the past. A programmer modified the DCB attributes on the DSCB. If you know what they are supposed to be, then run an IEBGENER to set them to something good. For a card image (source) type library, I do: //GENER EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD DUMMY //SYSUT1 DD * X //SYSUT2 DD DSN=MY.SOURCE.PDS(JUNK),DISP=OLD, // DCB=(LRECL=80,RECFM=FB,BLKSIZE=27920,DSORG=PO) // this is only an example! You need to know what the DCB characters really are (too large a BLKSIZE is usually OK). -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . john.mck...@healthmarkets.com . www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR Good Morning Gentle Readers, When I try to browse a member of my pds I get a I/O error. I tried browsing several members but I get the same error message. Is there a way of fixing it? For some reason the storage group is NOT backed up so I cannot restore it from an old backup. I recovered the PDS from a DFHSM backup but when I try to browse any members I still get the I/O error. Is there a work around to this problem or should I consider it lost? Thanks. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive
Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR
Also, RECFM could have been changed to RECFM=U vs. FB if an inappropriate task was executed against this file. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.) Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR Do you know what the LRECL is/should be? Can you read any members? Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258-8487 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax:(281)336-5410 E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR John, I followed your example it add the member JUNK to the pds and I was able to browse the member JUNK which has the X in it. However, the rest of the members still give the I/O error. I know that am sounding thick however I am not sure as to what I should do for the other members. Could you give me an example? From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:22:20 PM Subject: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR The X is just junk instream data to put into the member JUNK. What it is doesn't matter. I just put it there for completeness. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . john.mck...@healthmarkets.com . www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR John, Just to clarify, you have an X do I include it? Also, I noticed that you the SYSUT2 has the PDS name as well as the member name (JUNK). Could you tell me what it is for? From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:13:12 PM Subject: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR I had this happen in the past. A programmer modified the DCB attributes on the DSCB. If you know what they are supposed to be, then run an IEBGENER to set them to something good. For a card image (source) type library, I do: //GENER EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD DUMMY //SYSUT1 DD * X //SYSUT2 DD DSN=MY.SOURCE.PDS(JUNK),DISP=OLD, // DCB=(LRECL=80,RECFM=FB,BLKSIZE=27920,DSORG=PO) // this is only an example! You need to know what the DCB characters really are (too large a BLKSIZE is usually OK). -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . john.mck...@healthmarkets.com . www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR Good Morning Gentle Readers, When I try to browse a member of my pds I get a I/O error. I tried browsing several members but I get the same error message. Is there a way of fixing it? For some reason the storage group is NOT backed up so I
Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR
The DCB can be changed to RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760. That will guarantee that members can be read. After looking at a few members, the correct values can be determined. On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:59:04 + Mingee, David david.min...@libertymutual.com wrote: :Also, RECFM could have been changed to RECFM=U vs. FB if an inappropriate task was executed against this file. : :-Original Message- :From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.) :Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:49 PM :To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR : :Do you know what the LRECL is/should be? :Can you read any members? : :Dennis Roach :GHG Corporation :Lockheed Martin Mission Services :Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC :Address: : 2100 Space Park Drive : LM-15-4BH : Houston, Texas 77058 :Mail: : P.O. Box 58487 : Mail Code H4C : Houston, Texas 77258-8487 :Phone: : Voice: (281)336-5027 : Cell: (713)591-1059 : Fax:(281)336-5410 :E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com : :All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. : :-Original Message- :From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo :Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:41 PM :To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR : :John, : :I followed your example it add the member JUNK to the pds and I was able to browse the member JUNK which has the X in it. However, the rest of the members still give the I/O error. I know that am sounding thick however I am not sure as to what I should do for the other members. Could you give me an example? : :From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com :To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:22:20 PM :Subject: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR : :The X is just junk instream data to put into the member JUNK. What it is doesn't matter. I just put it there for completeness. -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR
If you have PDS or PDS85 on the system it may help. You can run it in batch like this: //TSO EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //* STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN= load library where PDS is //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD * PDS ' put bad pds here ' VERIFY : This command with the : says to read all members and list the bad ones. END // I'm not sure what you'll get if the dataset looks like a flat file if the directory was written over, but it may tell you something. If any members can be read, it will tell you which ones are the bad ones and you can then create an IEBCOPY job with an Exclude for all the bad members and copy the good members to a new dataset.. Thank You, Paul Strauss Integrated Technology Delivery, Global Services, IBM L0DB z/OS MVS/Program Products/Security 150 Kettletown Rd. Southbury, CT 06488 (203) 272-2758 strau...@us.ibm.com | | From: | | --| |Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com | --| | | To:| | --| |IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu | --| | | Date: | | --| |07/26/2011 02:50 PM | --| | | Subject: | | --| |Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR | --| | | Sent by: | | --| |IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu | --| The DCB can be changed to RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760. That will guarantee that members can be read. After looking at a few members, the correct values can be determined. On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:59:04 + Mingee, David david.min...@libertymutual.com wrote: :Also, RECFM could have been changed to RECFM=U vs. FB if an inappropriate task was executed against this file. : :-Original Message- :From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roach, Dennis (N-GHG CORP.) :Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:49 PM :To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR : :Do you know what the LRECL is/should be? :Can you read any members? : :Dennis Roach :GHG Corporation :Lockheed Martin Mission Services :Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC :Address: : 2100 Space Park Drive : LM-15-4BH : Houston, Texas 77058 :Mail: : P.O. Box 58487 : Mail Code H4C : Houston, Texas 77258-8487 :Phone: : Voice: (281)336-5027 : Cell: (713)591-1059 : Fax:(281)336-5410 :E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com : :All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. : :-Original Message- :From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of esmie moo :Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:41 PM :To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :Subject
