Re: Strange Message in Backup's Joblog

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 02:49 PM 10/14/98 -0400, you wrote:
>According to the DTAARA, RCLSTG has never been run on this box.  I have
>never done one either.  Looks like I'm going to get a "crash course" in
>RCLSTG this weekend (pun intended, but hoping for the best).

I would not wait.

>I've looked through the manual and have a question.  It states that
>"damaged database files for which data still exists are rebuilt as
>field-level files" and evidently saves them into QRCL library.  
>What are "field-level files"? 

They are referring to externally described files.

>Since the library that is coughing up the error message contains only
>data files, I'm very interested in this definition, as well as what it
>will take to restore this file back to original/useable condition.

RCLSTG works very well.  Usually it will recover the data.

Al




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