On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> wrote:
> Brief war story. Long before "z/OS", someone accidentally deleted (!!!) > the primary RACF data base. It was not enqueued on as previously noted. > Data was intact and the system hummed along, but there was no 'SYS1.RACF' > in the catalog. Using backup listings, we figured out the exact location on > the volume where the data set lived. Then we reallocated it using ABSTR to > rebuild the VTOC entry and did a DEF NVSAM to rebuild the catalog entry. > Some further cleanup action followed, but basically there was never an > outage. > > Could not have done that with VSAM. ;-) > Been there. Done that. Beat up the programmer. > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > robin...@sce.com > -- Windows. A funny name for a operating system that doesn't let you see anything. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
