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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:21:00 PST
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- From: Leonard D Woren <LDW@USCMVSA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Dangling VSAM truenames
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- On Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:41:00 PST,
- Gregory Plucinski 257508 <GRZES@PLWATU22.BITNET> said:
- > I think that someone use :
- > DELETE name CLUSTER
- > If you specify CLUSTER VSAM deletes only cluster (not DATA and INDEX,
- > i don't know why but it's )
-
- This is not true. Try it. DELETE CLUSTER deletes the cluster and all
- lower level related objects.
-
- > the only way to recover this situation is SUPERZAP VTOC.
- > (I can't erase all VSAM files on volume)
- > I change in VTOC bit PASSWORD PROTECTED end erase file using DISP=(OLD,DELETE
- > or from ISPF.
-
- This type of approach should be used only as a last-ditch effort, if
- you have ICF catalogs. ICF provides enough recovery capability that
- this should never be necessary. If you do the above for ICF VSAM
- objects, you'll end up with junk in the VVDS, and likely trouble down
- the road.
-
- I cannot imagine any reason for not converting to a pure ICF catalog
- environment. ICF catalogs are faster, smaller, and more reliable than
- VSAM catalogs and CVOLS, and I don't think there are any negatives.
-
-
- /Leonard
-