John and all...I'm sol on this one. I'm going to try to rebuild the volume from data on the production system.
Thanks again. --- "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard > Rifkind > > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:55 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: DASD Recovery > > > > > > Stupid Question. > > > > I have an old test system and some of the DASD > volumes > > have had a init done on them. > > > > Is there any recovery functin in ICKDSF that can > > recover the data and votc entry. > > > > Nothing has been done to these volumes since the > init. > > > > Or are we sool. > > > > Thanks. > > > > If you put the new VTOC at the same location as the > old VTOC, then you > are SOL. The reason is that when you init a VTOC, it > is reinitialized > (rewritten). If the new VTOC is at a different > location from the old > VTOC, there it __might__ be possible to alter the > pointer at the front > of the pack to point to the old VTOC location. I > actually did this many > years ago when I reinit'ed the wrong volume, but the > VTOC was in a > different location. Unfortunately, this was under > DOS/VS and another > sysprog actually did the recovery using DOS DITTO. > > -- > John McKown > Senior Systems Programmer > HealthMarkets > Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage > Administrative Services Group > Information Technology > > The information contained in this e-mail message may > be privileged > and/or confidential. It is for intended > addressee(s) only. If you are > not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified > that any disclosure, > reproduction, distribution or other use of this > communication is > strictly prohibited and could, in certain > circumstances, be a criminal > offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, > please notify the > sender by reply and delete this message without > copying or disclosing > it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
