RE: is there a way to recover deleted records ?

Hi,

We have a tool in the TAA Productivity Tools package called RTVDLTRCD.

It saves the file to a save file in QTEMP, reads the save file looking for
deleted records and writes them to the same file name in a separate
library. You may optionally capture the relative record number. After
that, you do your own thing with them.

The tool has some restrictions (no variable length fields, no null fields,
and REUSEDLT(*NO). Obviously, you cannot have reorganized the file.

Al

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I seem to recall a thread awhile back that revealed that SQL DELETEs cannot
be undone. As I recall, when SQL deletes a row, the record gets
initialized.

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200706/msg00495.html

Rereading this thread, it seems the scenario was inconclusive. Anyone know
for sure?

Eric

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The reason you can retrieve deleted records is that when your program
"deletes" a record, the operating system merely flags that record as
"deleted." That's why DSPFD has totals for "number of records" and
"number of deleted records." Until you reorganize that file, the
deleted record count will continue to climb.

When you save the file (SAVOBJ or SAVLIB), the saved object includes
both the active records and those flagged as deleted.

Now comes the fun part!

Save the file with the deleted records to a SAVF.

You can read a SAVF in RPG. Define a file (I believe it's 528
bytes-- DSPFD for the save file and check) and use it in your program.

As you read the file, there's some header information, followed by
your data. Yes, it doesn't line up with the record boundaries, and
you've got to deal with packed and binary and date fields, but your
records are all there! You can even find the flag that the system
uses to mark deleted records.

It's left as an exercise for the student to unwind the spanned
records and copy them to a new file with the deleted records restored.

Isn't there an option when dealing with files in the IFS to tell the
transfer commands what the record length is? If so, a copy out and
back may re-align the records...

-Paul E Musselman
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