Building a recovery job manually

If you are building a recovery job manually, you must add the following keyword to the recovery job to have CICS® VR apply log records produced by CICS® TS autojournaling to the VSAM spheres during forward recovery processing.

AUTOJOURNALS: The AUTOJOURNALS keyword must be added to the RECOVER command. The AUTOJOURNALS keyword specifies that CICS® VR must only apply log records produced by CICS® TS autojournaling to the VSAM spheres during forward recovery processing.

The following example recovery job recovers VSAM sphere SAMPLE.VSAM.SPHERE only from log records produced by CICS® TS autojournaling with a timestamp equal to or later than 03.325 11:59:59.

Figure 1. Example recovery job with CICS® TS autojournal options

 //JOB1 JOB ACCOUNTING INFORMATION,REGION=0M                                
 //COMMAND  EXEC PGM=DWWCO                                                  
 //STEPLIB  DD DSN=DWW.SDWWLOAD,DISP=SHR                                    
 //         DD DSN=DWW.SDWWLENU,DISP=SHR                                    
 //DWWCON1  DD DSN=DWW.DWWCON1,DISP=SHR                                     
 //DWWCON2  DD DSN=DWW.DWWCON2,DISP=SHR                                     
 //DWWCON3  DD DSN=DWW.DWWCON3,DISP=SHR                                     
 //DWWMSG   DD SYSOUT=*                                                     
 //DWWPRINT DD SYSOUT=*                                                     
 //DWWIN   DD *                                                             
        RECOVER -                                                               
             SPHERE(SAMPLE.VSAM.SPHERE)   -                                     
             AUTOJOURNALS                 -             (1)  
             STARTTIME(03.325/11:59:59)                                         
        MVSLOG NAME(AUTOJRNL.LOG.DFHJ01)                (2)  
 /*                                                                         
 //

The AUTOJOURNALS keyword specifies that CICS® VR must apply only log records produced by CICS® TS autojournaling during forward recovery processing.
The MVSLOG command with the NAME keyword specifies the name of the log stream that contains the log records produced by CICS® TS autojournaling that CICS® VR must apply to the VSAM sphere.

For more information about the manual creation of CICS® VR recovery jobs, see Running CICS VR manuallyRunning CICS(r)® VR manually in the CICS® VR User's Guide.