Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-13 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote in message news:listserv%200907101509205576.0...@bama.ua.edu... On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:51:10 -0400, Bob Rutledge wrote: From the z/OS V1.11 Preview, In z/OS V1.11, DFSMSdfp processing is planned to be changed to indicate end-of-file (EOF) during

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:30:48 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: From the z/OS V1.11 Preview, In z/OS V1.11, DFSMSdfp processing is planned to be changed to indicate end-of-file (EOF) during the allocation of data sets on DASD that are not SMS-managed and have either sequential or an

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-13 Thread Guy Gardoit
Hmmm. Makes me wonder if in Unix there is an recycle bin equivalent for the rm command. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.comwrote: I like (and use) the UNDO editor command from time to time. I like (and use) the Trash folder in Windows from time to

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-13 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Guy Gardoit Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? Hmmm. Makes me wonder if in Unix there is an recycle bin

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:49:15 -0700, Guy Gardoit wrote: Hmmm. Makes me wonder if in Unix there is an recycle bin equivalent for the rm command. mv -i some-file ~/.Trash/. # (OS X) o You _could_ alias rm to that. o I _hate_ when admins do that in .profile.comon o Be careful when: - A

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Knigge
Guy Gardoit schrieb: Hmmm. Makes me wonder if in Unix there is an recycle bin equivalent for the rm command. no. KDE, GNOME, XFCE and so on have a recycle bin implemented, wich only works if files are deleted with the filemanager of the desktop environment (-- KDE, GNOME, etc). But there is

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-13 Thread Andy Wood
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:03:19 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: . . . (From ancient experience and fading memory): Even before SMS existed, DS1LSTAR was set to beginning-of-file (Allocation wouldn't just leave the field uninitialized, would it?) QSAM correctly reported EOF on

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:35:04 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: Do you *not* use SMS for temporary data sets in your environment? I'm confused: 15 //WORK DD UNIT=SYSALLDA,SPACE=(CYL,(10,10)), // RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760 ... IGD100I 4159 ALLOCATED TO DDNAME WORK

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-12 Thread R.S.
Paul Gilmartin pisze: On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:35:04 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: Do you *not* use SMS for temporary data sets in your environment? I'm confused: 15 //WORK DD UNIT=SYSALLDA,SPACE=(CYL,(10,10)), // RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760 ... IGD100I 4159 ALLOCATED

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-12 Thread Steve Comstock
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:35:04 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: Do you *not* use SMS for temporary data sets in your environment? I'm confused: 15 //WORK DD UNIT=SYSALLDA,SPACE=(CYL,(10,10)), // RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760 ... IGD100I 4159 ALLOCATED

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-11 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:26:23 + Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: :Can the residual data still be read with EXCP? :If authorised, I believe. APF not required. Just specify an address in the extent(s). Of course, if OPEN is smart enough to only include the first track in the DEB for the

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote in message news:listserv%200907092202466049.0...@bama.ua.edu... On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:24:28 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: One thing that absolutely should NOT be part of this kind of tool would be the ability to allocate a dataset on top of the old

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread shai hess
Not with SMS datasets. They get a virtual end-of-file at allocation, so you can't accidently read the previous data. I think that with EXCP you can read any data in the extexts. Shai On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.vern...@klm.comwrote: Paul Gilmartin

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Yes, if you want to, you can also with IDCAMS, DSS print etc. You can't do it by accident anymore. Kees. shai hess shai.h...@gmail.com wrote in message news:65f7ba9f0907100015g2fc84be1j1499b0cfd9860...@mail.gmail.com... Not with SMS datasets. They get a virtual end-of-file at allocation, so

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:24:28 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Bill Fairchild
: +1.508.341.1715 Email: bi...@mainstar.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 1:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? Paul

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:24:28 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: One thing that absolutely should NOT be part of this kind of tool would be the ability to allocate a dataset on top of the old deleted dataset and access

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
: Friday, July 10, 2009 1:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote in message news:listserv%200907092202466049.0...@bama.ua.edu... On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:24:28 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: One thing

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Bill Fairchild
-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? Yeah, sure, with a chainsaw etc... I was talking about normal users that normally allocate a dataset and normally try to read it. With SMS-datasets they will encounter an empty file, with non-SMS they will read what is stil on the tracks

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:16:44 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: McKown, John jmck...@healthmarkets.com wrote in message news:a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea003ebeeb...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom. Very true. We've had programmers start screaming because they run a compile link. The compile fails and

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote in message news:listserv%200907100923504092.0...@bama.ua.edu... On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:16:44 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: McKown, John jmck...@healthmarkets.com wrote in message

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 9:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? snip This only true for non-SMS datasets. Are you

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:32:19 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: Do you believe the temporary DSN he used for SYSLIN was SMS controlled? Yes, why not? Ours are. Now I'm confused. I had thought: o SMS requires that datasets be catalogued. o Temporary DSNs are not eligible to be catalogued.

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 10:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:32:19 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Howard Brazee
Of course, old timers have read tapes past EOF when we wanted to check the bits and bytes. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Greg Shirey
Here's an example from a recent compile/link job: //SYSLIN DD DSN=LOADSET,DISP=(MOD,PASS), // UNIT=(SYSDA),SPACE=(80,(1800,1200)) ... //SYSLIN DD DSN=LOADSET,DISP=(OLD,PASS) IGD101I SMS ALLOCATED TO DDNAME (SYSLIN )

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Guy Gardoit
...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shai Hess Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Any product to undelete file? HI, Any product to undelete file which was deleted by mistake by a user and the space for the deleted file was not used by other new

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Neal Scheffler
Since we don't have instantaneous backups at our shop, that statement is ridiculous. Neal Guy Gardoit wrote: If you've heard of many cases of files being wrongly deleted without them being backed up, those cases are the result of faulty DASD management.

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:05:39 -0400, Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com wrote: Of course you can with EXCP or XDAP, neither of which requires authorizatoin. ... Anyone who owns a data set that he doesn't want someone else to be able to read after he deletes it needs to cause it to be erased

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Bob Rutledge
Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: Yeah, sure, with a chainsaw etc... I was talking about normal users that normally allocate a dataset and normally try to read it. With SMS-datasets they will encounter an empty file, with non-SMS they will read what is stil on the tracks from the previous dataset.

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Can the residual data still be read with EXCP? If authorised, I believe. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Guy Gardoit
I, of course, was talking about established, useful production or test files - not something someone just allocated 5 seconds ago. Thought that was obvious but . On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Neal Scheffler n...@chrysler.com wrote: Since we don't have instantaneous backups at our

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:51:10 -0400, Bob Rutledge wrote: From the z/OS V1.11 Preview, In z/OS V1.11, DFSMSdfp processing is planned to be changed to indicate end-of-file (EOF) during the allocation of data sets on DASD that are not SMS-managed and have either sequential or an undefined data set

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Bill Fairchild
List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 3:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? Can the residual data still be read with EXCP? If authorised, I believe. - Too busy driving to stop for gas

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Guy Gardoit wrote: No. Disturbingly inappropriate as well. z/OS isn't as simple as Windows, at least, that's what I think. If you've heard of many cases of files being wrongly deleted without them being backed up, those cases are the result of faulty DASD management. I like (and use)

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Edward Jaffe wrote: ... I like (and use) the Trash folder in Windows from time to time... Of course, I meant the Recycle Bin in Windows. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:32:19 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: Do you believe the temporary DSN he used for SYSLIN was SMS controlled? Yes, why not? Ours are. Now I'm confused... Do you *not* use SMS for temporary data sets in your environment? --

Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread Shai Hess
HI, Any product to undelete file which was deleted by mistake by a user and the space for the deleted file was not used by other new files in the disk? and we do not have a backup, or up to date backup for the deleted file? Thanks, Shai

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread Gibney, Dave
-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Any product to undelete file? HI, Any product to undelete file which was deleted by mistake by a user and the space for the deleted file was not used by other new files in the disk? and we do not have a backup, or up to date backup for the deleted file

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread shai hess
: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Any product to undelete file? HI, Any product to undelete file which was deleted by mistake by a user and the space for the deleted file was not used by other new files in the disk? and we do not have a backup

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Shai Hess shai.h...@gmail.com wrote in message news:listserv%200907090235149391.0...@bama.ua.edu... HI, Any product to undelete file which was deleted by mistake by a user and the space for the deleted file was not used by other new files in the disk? and we do not have a backup, or up

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread shai hess
, Shai On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.vern...@klm.comwrote: Shai Hess shai.h...@gmail.com wrote in message news:listserv%200907090235149391.0...@bama.ua.edulistserv%25200907090235149391.0...@bama.ua.edu ... HI, Any product to undelete file which was deleted

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shai Hess Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Any product to undelete file? HI, Any product to undelete file which was deleted by mistake

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
And: can you also update the VTOCIX, VVDS and for VSAM: catalogs? Kees -Original Message- From: Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: donderdag 9 juli 2009 10:02 To: 'IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu' Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? Some thoughts about it: Depending on the location on the volume

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread shai hess
Subject: Any product to undelete file? HI, Any product to undelete file which was deleted by mistake by a user and the space for the deleted file was not used by other new files in the disk? and we do not have a backup, or up to date backup for the deleted file

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread shai hess
the VTOCIX, VVDS and for VSAM: catalogs? Kees -Original Message- From: Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: donderdag 9 juli 2009 10:02 To: 'IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu' Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? Some thoughts about it: Depending on the location on the volume, the activity

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Any product to undelete file? HI, Any product to undelete file which was deleted by mistake by a user and the space for the deleted file was not used by other new files in the disk? and we do not have a backup

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of shai hess Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? HI, I want to develop an automatic process which will keep

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? HI, I want to develop an automatic process which will keep the old VTOC entries of files which were deleted. Using the undelete request, will recreate the VTOC DSCB1 record automatically. I heard about many

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread Howard Brazee
On 9 Jul 2009 06:11:46 -0700, jmck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) wrote: I had another reply to this, but it was a bit of a rant. So, I'll tone it down. How are people supposed to learn don't do that if we make it so that nothing that they do can cause them any harm? We don't give full

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
? -Original Message- From: shai hess Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file? No, I do not think about complicate process which will verify that the data is not overwrite. I think about situation when you press ENTER for delete

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:22:24 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.vern...@klm.com wrote: ... A feature like a Recycle Bin could be useful without introducing too much overhead. If a dataset is deleted, just keep it, but hide it by administrating it in a Recycle Bin per volume. HSM could periodically

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread shai hess
HI, All your questions easily can be handle. And of course when I talked about the idea of the utility I did not describe the full functionality of the product in details because this utility is not exist yet. And in one of the previous email I describe that I will check for the user if other

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:10:15 -0700, shai hess shai.h...@gmail.com wrote: ... All your questions easily can be handle. ... The one part you cannot handle is that, in my opinion, this kind of function should be implemented by IBM as part of HSM. One thing that absolutely should NOT be part of

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:24:28 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote: One thing that absolutely should NOT be part of this kind of tool would be the ability to allocate a dataset on top of the old deleted dataset and access the data. This would be a huge security hole (as others have said in this thread).