Endevor Base library is edited from outside Endevor thereby destroying the Endevor footprint. Is there any way to preserve the member's history before deleting it?

Products

• Endevor
• Endevor Natural Integration
• Endevor - ECLIPSE Plugin
• Endevor - Enterprise Workbench

Issue/Introduction

On rare occasions a member in our Endevor Base library is edited from outside Endevor thereby destroying the Endevor footprint.  Is there any way to preserve the member’s history before deleting it?   

 

 

Environment

Release:
Component: ENDBAS

Resolution

Preserve a member’s history by using the Endevor Archive and Restore actions.

SCL example:

STEPS would be as follows: 

1 - Use the Endevor ARCHIVE action - sample SCL would be as follows: 

000020 //ARCH1 DD DISP=SHR, DSN=BST.XXX.ARCH03 
000021 //BSTIPT01 DD * 
000022 ARCHIVE ELEMENT XXX123 
000023 FROM ENVIRONMENT 'XXXENV' SYSTEM 'XXXTEST' SUBSYSTEM 'XXXSUB1' 
000024 TYPE 'TEST1' STAGE * 
000025 TO DDNAME ARCH1 
000026 OPTIONS OVERRIDE SIGNOUT BYPASS ELEMENT DELETE . 

2 - After checking to make sure the ARCHIVE has been successful - delete the member 

3 - Using the Endevor Restore action - sample SCL would be as: 

000018 //ARCH1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=BST.XXX.ARCH03 
000019 //********************************************************************* 
000020 //* REQUEST DATA SET * 
000021 //********************************************************************* 
000022 //BSTIPT01 DD * 
000023 RESTORE ELEMENT 'XXX123’' 
000024 FROM DDN ARCH1 ENV 'XXXENV' SYS 'XXXTEST' SUB 'XXXSUB1' 
000025 TYPE 'TEST1' STA NUM 1 
000026 TO ENV 'XXXENV' SYS 'XXXTEST' SUB 'XXXSUB1' TYPE 'TEST1' STAGE NUM1 

 

For more information on the ARCHIVE and RESTORE actions please refer to the Endevor documentation WIKI’s.