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santoshkumarmanilakkoju
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Hi All,
I want to retrive prior version of a member in a PDS. Would that be possible in Mainframe.
Please help. |
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enrico-sorichetti
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| Would that be possible in Mainframe. |
almost everything is possible if ...
You know how to do it,
Somebody set up things for You,
( installed software, provided and enforced standards )
prior version is pretty generic anyway
You might ask Your support if a backup of the pds is available
but then, since usually backups are a daily process
if in the morning You made 10 changes, You are out of luck if You wanted the <thing> after the second change
You will be able to <back up> to the previous day data only!
there are some SCM who do versioning, but only after a change is committed
Your working copy will not be versioned ( you must take care of backing things up at the proper time ) |
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agkshirsagar
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Not sure if your intention is to use PDS as a version maintenance tool or to recover last working copy of source after you saved some changes mistakenly.
If latter is the case; try to see if PDSMAN, PDSFAST or STARTOOL (or any package that supports recover function on a PDS) is installed on your site. The best way to know will be talking to peers/support folks.
PDSMAN has been a lifesaver for me on a few occasions! |
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santoshkumarmanilakkoju
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Yes, "to recover last working copy of source after you saved some changes mistakenly"
We have PDSFAST. Do you know how it works? |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
You need to talk with whoever supports PDSFAST on your system - possibly the storage management group of the technical support group. |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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We have PDSFAST. Do you know how it works?
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of course he does.
now, we realize you are doing everything you can
to avoid having it known that you screwed-up,
but at some point you are going to have to talk with your support personnel. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Suggest you focus on getting the info back rather than hiding that it was lost . . .
The only people who never do anything wrong are not doing anything at all. We all have made or will make mistakes. . . Something i regularly do is make an offline copy of things if i do not feel comfortable with the current infrastructure (not all clients have the same protection) to get things back if i step on my hand  |
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agkshirsagar
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| We have PDSFAST. Do you know how it works? |
Before we answer that, open the PDSFAST ISPF interface and try to use RM Recover Member(s) option after giving PDS name in the PRIMARY DATA SET name.
If the operation was successful, you should get a message n MEMBERS RECOVERED. Now, if you open the the PDS, you should see ZNEWnnnn members in your PDS. You will need to decide which version you need to keep and discard the rest.
Note: This will not work on PDSEs.. (only reason I am not a fan of PDSEs).
To find your answer, try finding out why do we need to compress a PDS from time to time? |
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