DUMPING PROBLEM

[MaxIkanut]

Dear Friends After upgrade to 2-lim system I noticed that the system lost all data after restart!

I did

<DUBDP ;
BACKUP DATA
EXTERNAL BACKUP LATEST PREVIOUS
REL1 REL2
10:50 12OCT14 01:19 08APR14
LOCAL BACKUP
NO LIM WITH DIVERGENT TIME AND DATE

END

I also noticed that REL 1 showing future date constantly. What could be the problem?

Thanks
Max

 

[himdp]

I have seen something like this once before when upgrading. A dump was made with no data and was time-stamped in the future.
Then the calendar was corrected and a dump made after the data was entered from PCREGEN.
The latest dump with the system data had an older time-stamp than the dump without data.
Any subsequent dump will only ever overwrite the oldest dump (i.e. the valid one ) and leave the dump with the postdated time-stamp unchanged.
A data reload (e.g. after a restart) will always be made from the newest dump which is the one dated in the future before the data was entered and result in all the data being lost.

In my case the solution was to block the postdated REL and then do a data reload to recover the data to the system. Then we just did a FICRI of a replacement HDU and did two new dumps. However at the stage where the data is recovered you could simply remove the offending REL and dump over it.