DB recovery - lost control files

I use Oracle and Informix on a fairly regular basis. Recently, my "system" (/usr) disk crashed on my INGR unix w/s. Oracle s/w and db's were all on a different disk, so were unaffected. Informix s/w was on system disk and db files were on another disk. I lost my "tbconfig" file because of the crash. I think the tbconfig file can be likened to Oracle's control file (correct me if I'm wrong). I was able to use "tbcheck -pr" to read the "reserved pages". Evidently, the first 12 pages in the infoe db store info that can be used to recover the db. This was an absolute lifesaver because it allowed me to "reconstruct" the tbconfig file and restart my db.

Does Oracle have a way to do something like this??

JJ

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