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sajjan jindal
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:45 am
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Hi,

Recently i came across a scenario where i had to recover a deleted GDG. The GDG was defined with Scratch and Noempty. As far as i know the Scratch parameter implies that the dataset is overwritten with zeros and so it cant be recovered.

But the data was recoverd using the volume number that means the dataset was only uncataloged.

Can anyone please clearify how the dataset was yet existing even after being declared with scratch.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:01 pm
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Was it in ROLLED OFF or DEFERRED status ?
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sajjan jindal
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:15 pm
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It was one of the versions of the GDG.
Can u plz tell me how do we check if it was in ROLLED OFF or DEFERRED status ?

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:37 pm
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