In this case we're talking about an operator error which caused the data (possibly) to be lost, so that situation needs to be described in the comment section of the report. As long as these mistakes do not happen with any regularity then there should be no problem with having this one report accepted.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind all sub-cap customers that the contractual requirement is that all SMF data from all LPARs running z/OS must be included in the SCRT report, not merely 95%. While it has been IBM's practice to accept SCRT reports with less than 100% data collection reported, we did that because we knew that not every customer keeps their machine up and running 100% of the time. We didn't want to have to request documentation for every instance when that happened because back in the beginning we really didn't know what the average environment was going to look like. It was never meant to be a "free pass" to leave data out of the report. Not that I'm saying anyone is doing that, but I want to make that clear. David *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Forwarded File *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:07:01 -0500 From: "Kelman, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: recreating deleted dataset Ouch!! I don't know of anyway to recover that, maybe someone else does. I would think the VTOC entry would be gone, and it is highly likely that the data is already overwritten. How much did you lose? Was it more than one day's worth? You are required to have "% data collected" of >95% for the SCRT report to be accepted. 29 days of data out of 30 gives 96.67% and 30 days out of 31 gives 96.77% so if you don't lose anymore you should be alright. If you come up short maybe you could explain it as an exception in the SCRT report, and you could see if IBM will accept it. Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Errol Van staden > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: recreating deleted dataset > > Hi List. Does anybody have a utility or know how to recreate a deleted > dataset > (possibly by using the VTOC entry) Our storage administrator accidently > deleted all the SMF dumped data from a system and it has major SCRT > implications for workload usage. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- David J. Chase, WW zSeries Software Sales -- -- IBM 18th Fl, 11 Madison Ave, NYC, NY 10010 -- -- 917-472-3346 - dchase at us.ibm.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
