Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest V3 #671

[prumschlag@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi, all.  I am looking for some help.

Two files (one physical and one logical) have disappeared from our system today.
They are JD Edwards control files that are referenced often by programs all over
the system.  Based on the timing of jobs completing successfully and jobs
blowing up with File Not Found errors, we have narrowed the time slot down to
somewhere between 13:55 and 13:58.  We would like to know how this has happened
so we can prevent it from happening again.

We figure the choices are 1)  Someone deleted them either intentionally or
unintentionally, 2)  JD Edwards programs messed up, or 3)  OS/400 lost the
files.  We are pursuing 1 and 2, but no one here will 'fess up and JDE swears
that there is no function in the system that would delete these files.  I don't
want to blame the AS/400, but I have to at least consider the possibility.  Is
anyone aware of any system records that would help us trace this?  The system
log does not have that kind of detail,  and because this is a JDE control file
it is kept in a library that is not journaled.

Much obliged.

Phil


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