"Edward Jaffe" <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> wrote in message news:<4c0def64.9020...@phoenixsoftware.com>... > I can't for the life of me explain why this is not HIPER, but if you use > PDSEs in your shop I highly recommend APAR OA30338. > > Without this fix, we had broken PDSEs that could not be read, accessed, > or even deleted and that led to abends in HSM, CATALOG errors, DADSM > errors, corrupted VTOCs with overlapping extents--the works. The VTOC on > one volume (an EAV) was so screwed up, we had to completely reINIT it. > > To get rid of these bad PDSEs, we had to one-at-a-time ZAP the FMT-1 > DSCB in the VTOC to turn off the PDSE flag, delete the PDSE, immediately > allocate a "dummy" sequential data set to reuse the just-freed DSCB for > non-PDSE data set, and then either restore the PDSE from a backup or > recreate from scratch. It was ugly! > > Unfortunately, an IPL is required to make the fix effective. But, it's
> worth it! > > -- > Edward E Jaffe You mentioned the EAV volume. Do you have indications that this is part of the problem, i.e. the problem only occurs on EAV volumes? Kees. ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
