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Recover Overlaid or Deleted Members

The Recover Overlaid or Deleted Members screen lets you recover members that have been deleted or overlaid by updating a new PDS with the recovered versions of the members.

---- CA File Master Plus -- Recover Overlaid or Deleted Members ---- COMMAND ===> Specify PDS with members to be recovered Data set name ===> 'ABC.TEST33.PDS' Limit recovery to members with following character string (optional) Char string ===> ____________________ Specify DSN for a new PDS that will contain the recovered members. When New PDS DSN is blank, a DSN for the recovery PDS will be generated. New PDS DSN ===> ______________________________________________

This function is helpful by recovering members that were erroneously deleted or updated and by letting you browse or edit previous versions of a member.

The Recover Overlaid or Deleted Members function only works with a PDS and does not work with a PDS/E. Recovery is possible only while the overlaid or deleted members are in the PDS. For example, compressing a PDS makes the members no longer available for recovery.

Type the DSN of the PDS from which members are to be recovered. All recovered members are named #nnnnn where 'nnnnn' is a five digit number starting with '00001'.

Tip: You can also type the DSN of the PDS to which the members are to be recovered, but it is usually more convenient to let the process calculate this DSN for you.

Optionally, you can type a character string to limit recovery to members that contain that character string.