Re: Finding all damaged objects

Thanks to everyone who responded. I believe we're fully recovered now.

I did find or was pointed to an IBM doc on it at: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/looking-objects-marked-damaged

It's a nice document, but there's an error in it. It says to query "WHERE odobnm <> '0'".

ODOBNM can also be blank. That ran me in circles for a couple days as the objects still reported as damaged.

Thanks again for the great community support!

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way international
www.TheWay.org

-----Original Message-----
message: 1
date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 10:46:05 -0400
from: Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Finding all damaged objects

Michael,
Do a save. During a save is when an object is checked and will then be
flagged as damaged. The RCLSTG will only try to fix those objects flagged as
damaged by the save (along with other stuff RCLSTG does).
Before and after the save run the following:
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww
w.ibm.com%2Fsupport%2Fpages%2Flooking-objects-marked-
damaged&data=05%7C02%7Cmichaelquigley%40theway.org%7C632df566d2
b944b3877b08ddebcaef25%7Cdfc3789155b94fe0bc8b34a0f4b6650f%7C0%7C
0%7C638925979221877041%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hc
GkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIld
UIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2Fa%2BNzgokHJ5UVqqFyyvXSf
wGADGFQwORJ50J9u%2BiNCM%3D&reserved=0

On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 9:46?AM Michael Quigley
<MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

(Setting the record straight let me first say, I'm a developer. I just
happen to be the most knowledgeable person on our staff regarding IBM
i. I did cover the system administration duties decades ago, but I'm
not sure I really knew what I was doing even back then. Hence, some
guidance would be helpful for me. Thanks in advance.)

We had a power failure over the past weekend. A while back the
official systems administration guys decided to replace the UPS with
something different rather than buying new batteries for our old UPS.
(I'm not going there today.) It turns out that the new UPS didn't go
in as easily as they thought. So our rack continues to run off the old
UPS. Unfortunately, the batteries are completely shot. This resulted in a

hard shutdown.

I've discovered 2 damaged objects so far. I was able to restore them
from backups. Would a RCLSTG be the best way to uncover anything else?

I thought I remembered that needed to be done in a restricted state,
but the documentation I can find doesn't mention that. Is it okay to
do with the system active?

Thanks again for any help!

Thanks,
Michael Quigley
Computer Services