3.4. How to recover a damaged VSAM data set
IDCAMS has three important commands used to recover VSAM clusters and catalogs. They are: EXAMINE, DIAGNOSE, and VERIFY.
3.4.1. EXAMINE command
EXAMINE is an IDCAMS command that allows the user to analyze and collect information on the structural consistency of KSDS data set clusters and of a VVRDS data set cluster. In addition, EXAMINE can analyze and report on the structural integrity of the basic catalog structure (BCS) of an ICF catalog. This function cannot share a cluster opened for output or update by other task.
The EXAMINE function executes two possible tests:
Test the Index portion (INDEXTEST), the default
Evaluates the full index component of the KSDS/VRRDS cluster by cross-checking vertical ...
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