Viewing unregistered VSAM spheres

If you enter the name of a data set on the Data Set Name field of the CICS® VR VSAM sphere list include secondary window, CICS® VR opens the specified data set and reads each VSAM sphere name record.

For each record read, CICS® VR tries to match it with an entry in the RCDS. A match indicates that the VSAM sphere is registered to CICS® VR, and CICS® VR creates a recovery job for the VSAM sphere.

If a VSAM sphere name record does not match an entry in the CICS® VR RCDS, that VSAM sphere is not registered to CICS® VR. CICS® VR cannot create a recovery job for this VSAM sphere, and an error message is written to the data set allocated to the DWWMSG ddname.

A VSAM sphere is registered to CICS® VR during the following activities:
  • LOGOFLOGS SCAN
  • CICS® VR batch logging
  • Notification of a logical backup created for the VSAM sphere
  • Notification of a CICS® backout failure for a VSAM sphere

See Registering a VSAM sphere in the RCDS for more information regarding the registration of VSAM spheres.

After all VSAM spheres listed in the data set are read by CICS® VR and, if one or more of the VSAM spheres does not match an entry in the RCDS, the data set allocated to the DWWMSG ddname is opened for VIEW:

Figure 1. VIEW of DWWMSG data set - if one or more unregistered VSAM spheres found
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Press F3 to exit the VIEW of the DWWMSG data set and continue to create a recovery job for the VSAM spheres that match an entry in the RCDS.

If you do not enter the name of a data set on the CICS® VR VSAM sphere list include secondary window, the DWWMSG data set is not opened for VIEW.