RE: DAMAGED OBJECT: How do I delete it???

["Bale, Dan" <D.Bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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It figures, just after I sent the original post, the WRKOBJLCK finished.
The result: "There are no locks for the specified object."

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bale, Dan
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 10:56 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      DAMAGED OBJECT: How do I delete it???
>
> On a V3R2 system, I've got an apparent damaged object; a physical data
> file (with no logicals).  DSPOBJD shows the object's text as "***
> Object
> is damaged ***".  Returning to the command line from that command, I
> am
> presented with CPF2115:
>
>  Message ID . . : CPF2115    Severity . . . : 40
>  Message type . : Diagnostic
>  Date sent  . . : 09/10/01   Time sent  . . : 10:51:05
>
>  Message  . :   Object ACCUSPXT in ASNPDN type *FILE damaged.
>  Recovery . :   Either delete the object and then create it
>    again, or restore it from another version.
>
> When I try to delete the thing, the job hangs, the job shows no
> activity, no CPU being used.  ENDJOB *IMMED took about five minutes.
> Now doing a WRKOBJLCK on it, running on ten minutes now, eating up CPU
> (8.5% over ten minutes), no results.
>
> If I attempt to restore the object from a backup, will I have the same
> problem as when I try to delete it?  Anything else I can do to kill
> this
> thing?  BTW, this is a development box, so I can recreate the file via
> a
> compile.
>
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com