This thread seems to have left OP in the dust. Ability to recover data in an altered PDS, apart from any funky DCB parameters, depends entirely on whether the killer job specified a member name. If so, that member may not be readable, but the rest of the PDS should be OK once DCB is corrected.
If no member was specified in the killer job, then the directory is toast. There is no clean recovery from that, but a program that reads block by block might be able to extract data not overlaid by the killer job. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Finnell Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 4:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: IEBPTPCH (was: Read a PDS ...) There's several problems. The OP wanted to convert a PDS to a flat file for examining program calls. With PDS or STARTools or superc this in not required. In the process of examining the PDS he corrupted the DCB. There is no backup. Using DITTO a necessary pgm was recovered. XMIT converts a PDS to a flat file 80/3120 that is a special invocation of IEBCOPY unload and not useful for much other than RECEIVE. First need to fix the original PDS DCB which can be accomplished with IEFBR14 //DD1 DD DSN=Original, DCB=(DSORG=PO,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=original),DISP=MOD Then do IEBCOPY of original to new PDS or use PDS command to examine or list members. There is a fixpds command but wouldn't do this until the DCB is corrected. Source control may maintained with SCLM or 3rd party software. In a message dated 6/17/2016 6:16:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: There might be existing tools that are better approaches to the problem. Someone here lately mentioned Startool, and I think of SuperC SRCHFOR. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
