Informing CICS® VR of autojournal log records

When autojournaling has been enabled for VSAM spheres, CICS® VR must be informed of the autojournaling activity, if you want to use the CICS® VR panel interface to build a job that recovers VSAM spheres from log records produced by CICS® TS autojournaling.

You can use the existing CICS® VR log of logs utilities to store information about autojournaling activity in the RCDS. To do this:
  1. Use the CICS® VR LOGOFLOGS REGISTER utility to register to CICS® VR the MVS™ log streams that contain the log records produced by CICS® TS autojournaling.
    1. Start the CICS® VR panel interface and select option 3, List of registered log of logs (CICS® TS), from the CICS® VR main menu.
    2. From the CICS® VR log of logs list panel, select option 1, Register, from the Administrate menu. The CICS® VR log of logs register secondary window is displayed (see Registering your log of logs data sets).
    3. In the Log of logs input field, type the name of a log stream that contains log records produced by CICS® TS autojournaling , and press Enter.
    For more information about the CICS® VR LOGOFLOGS REGISTER utility, see Registering your log of logs data sets.
    Note:
    You also can call the CICS® VR LOGOFLOGS REGISTER utility from a batch job. See the LOGOFLOGS REGISTER command description (LOGOFLOGS: Process a log of logs) for more information.
  2. Scan the registered logs with the CICS® VR LOGOFLOGS SCAN utility. A log of logs scan batch job (see Setting up the scan utility to run as a batch job) must be created and then submitted at regular intervals. CICS® VR reads data from all logs that were registered using the CICS® VR LOGOFLOGS REGISTER utility, and stores recovery information found on the logs in the RCDS. See Setting up the log of logs scan utility (scan) for more information about the LOGOFLOGS SCAN utility.