[Info-vax] [OpenVMS Alpha V8.3] How to recover a corrupted PCSI database?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-02-18 00:44:24 +0000, Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER said:

> Is there a better way than reinstalling the system (and all LPs) or maybe
> following Hoff's old advice http://openvms.compaq.com/wizard/wiz_2434.html
> (as this was 1999 and PCSI utility hopefully got improved in the meantime)?

AFAIK, no.   Though check with HP support and see if they've 
implemented a tool to perform some or all of this recovery.

PCSI and some other components could have benefited from access to an 
integrated transactional database; to a system-integrated SQLite, or 
otherwise.  But I digress.

If you have access to the patches, definitely load the current PCSI 
patch kit.  This so your PCSI database rebuild uses the latest bits, 
and particularly because of, well, reasons.  Good reasons.



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