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Field Descriptions - Recover Overlaid or Deleted Members

Specify PDS with members to be recovered

Data set name

Type the DSN of the PDS that contains members that need to be recovered. You can recover members, which have been either deleted or overlaid with a new version. The recovered members are written to a PDS that is allocated by the recovery process and the PDS with Members to be Recovered will not be updated.

Note: You must have update authority for this PDS.

To facilitate selection of the desired DSN, you can type any of the following syntaxes.

• Wildcarded DSN containing an asterisk (*) or a percent sign (%) for unknown characters of the DSN
• D to request a directory of DSN Lists
• D dddddd where 'dddddd' is the name of a DSN list

Limit recovery to members with following character string

Char string

Most of the time when recovering overlaid or deleted members, you are looking for one particular member to recover. To make it easier to locate the desired member, it is helpful to only recover members that have a chance of being the member for which you are looking. When this field contains a non-blank character string, only members that contain the character string are restored. When this field is blank, all overlaid and deleted members are restored.

For example, if you are looking for a program source member and the program name is in the source, you can limit the restored members by typing the program name in this field.

Specify DSN for a new PDS

New PDS DSN

If the deleted and overlaid members need to be recovered to a specified DSN, type the DSN in this field. The DSN specified must not already be on the catalog because the member recovery process creates the New PDS for Recovered members.

Tip: It is usually simpler to leave this field blank and let the DSN of the New PDS for Recovered Members be calculated for you.

The calculated DSN contains the DSN of the original PDS. According to your user profile, your user ID can be appended to the front of the calculated DSN. This option in the user profile is set with the Userid Prefix for Backup PDSs? field of the Processing Defaults and Job Statement Screen (CA File Master Plus Option 0.1).

A qualifier is added to the end of the calculated DSN to indicate that it is a recovered PDS and this qualifier may contain a sequence number if the calculated DSN has already been used. The part of the calculated DSN that contains the original PDS DSN may be truncated to make room for the prefix or suffix being added.

Note: Since any DSN typed must be for a data set that does not currently exist, wildcard and DSN List support is not available for this field.