Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi,

Is there a parameter which we can give while creating the GDG base which might make the base get deleted after some years?

We have a GDG base, in production, which was deleted abruptly two days back. We came to know only when the Job got the JCL errors. How should we start investigating about it?

SMF record type 65 ???

Is there a parameter which we can give while creating the GDG base which might make the base get deleted after some years?

No -- someone issued an IDCAMS DELETE or something similar against the GDG base. As Enrico said, use the SMF record type 65 to identify who and when.

Thanks Robert.