If you can get the VVDS entries back, then a simple DEFINE RECATALOG should work. Otherwise, do you have any tools that can backup a VSAM data component using EXCP? If so, you could back up the data, scratch the data/index from the current volume, define the cluster, then reload from your backup.
Larry Crilley Dino Software, Corp. http://www.dino-software.com/ 412-734-2853. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Deaver Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: VSAM Recovery Help Long story short... I screwed up and lost some data... I have a volume recovered from an FDR dump that contains the data and index components of a vsam dataset. The catalog/cluster entry is gone. I need to recreate the vsam cluster from the components I have. Also - the recovered volume serial is different than the original volume name, so I fear the VVDS may cause me problems. I'm not a VSAM expert and so looking for help here. Thanks. Jeffrey Deaver, Senior Analyst, Systems Engineering 651-665-4231 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
