But, even in these cases, you cannot "restore" it back into the SPOOL as it was before it was deleted. You may, at most, be able to retrieve the data which was in it and place it in a different SPOOL data set or a DISK data set or ????. But you can't make it to be part of the job's output again.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com>wrote: > To Ed's point. > > If the STC is still running and you only purged a small subset and you DO > NOT HAVE SPIN=CLOSE,FREE=UNALLOC > > In SDSF issue the ST command. Then prefix the name of your STC. > > Issue a ? (question mark) next to the name. If there is any output > available, you can see it there. > > Otherwise - purged is gone. > > In JES2 if there is any part of the job on SPOOL and it does not use > SPIN=CLOSE,FREE=UNALLOC, then all of the job is still on the spool and > visible from the ST function. JES2 will only purge when all parts are > purged. That is why when a job has a step like IEBGENR and the only sysout > you find in O function is the IEBGENER step, if you did an ST you may see > the entire job still left on JES2. > > > > Lizette > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > > Behalf Of Ed Jaffe > > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 9:24 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: To restore Purged STC output > > > > On 2/10/2014 9:01 PM, mf db wrote: > > > Is there a possibility of recovering a particular Purged STC back to > spool ? > > > > If you purged only a subset of output files from the STC, it is often > possible to > > recover them with the right tools. If you purged the entire job, no > recovery is > > possible... > > > > -- > > Edward E Jaffe > > Phoenix Software International, Inc > > 831 Parkview Drive North > > El Segundo, CA 90245 > > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
