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CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS 6.3
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  2. Welcome
  3. CICS® VR and CICS® TS

  4. Automated Recovery and Reorganization

    This section describes the tasks to perform when enabling automated recovery in CICS® VR V4R1.

  5. Preparing for Reorganization

    When preparing for reorganization, the started tasks DWWCBINF, DWWCBRRY and DWWCBRRG are defined.

  • What's new in CICS VR 6.3

    CICS® VR 6.3 contains these changes.

  • Operating environment

    CICS® VR uses logs to recover your VSAM data.

  • CICS VR Overview
  • Getting Started

  • CICS® VR and CICS® TS

    • Setting up CICS® VR for CICS® TS

      The tasks you need to do to set up CICS® VR for CICS TS.

    • Setting up your CICS® TS environment

      This section describes the tasks you need to do to set up your CICS® TS environment for CICS VR.

    • Using the CICS® VR file copy notification service

      This section primarily documents intended Programming Interface that allow the customer to write programs to obtain the notify service of CICS® VR.

    • Using CICS® VR with CICS® TS at your disaster recovery site

      This section describes the tasks you need to perform to prepare your primary site and your remote site for disaster recovery using CICS® TS and CICS VR.

    • Automated Recovery and Reorganization

      This section describes the tasks to perform when enabling automated recovery in CICS® VR V4R1.

      • Automated Recovery Overview

        CICS® VR automated recovery support provides several functions.

      • Preparing for Automated Recovery

        Perform™ the following steps to prepare for Automated Recovery.

      • Reorganization Overview

        Reorganization is required when more space is needed.

      • Preparing for Reorganization

        When preparing for reorganization, the started tasks DWWCBINF, DWWCBRRY and DWWCBRRG are defined.

  • CICS VR Exits

  • Running CICS® VR forward recovery

    CICS® VR forward recovery consists of a restore and then forward recovery.

  • Running CICS® VR backup

    The information in the following topics describe how to take a backup using CICS® VR. The panels and secondary windows are in the sequence that they are displayed during a backup job generation.

  • Running CICS® VR reorganization

    You can reorganize a VSAM sphere using CICS® VR. VSAM sphere reorganization can increase the space of a sphere and its alternate indexes. It can also change the control interval sizes for a sphere's components.

  • Working with other VSAM sphere list pull-down menus

    The CICS® VR recovery and backup functions are typically accessed using the Utilities pull-down menu after selecting VSAM spheres.

  • Working with CICS® Backout Failed spheres

    The CICS® Backout Failed sphere list shows the CICS spheres registered for manual recovery or reorganization after CICS notification of a backout failure.

  • Working with logs
  • Using ISMF data set lists with CICS® VR

    CICS® VR is integrated with ISMF so that you can create a CICS VR recovery job for the data sets in an ISMF data set list by entering the VSAMREC line operator or list command. When you enter the VSAMREC line operator or list command, the necessary CICS VR panels are called and you can create a recovery job for the VSAM sphere.

  • Running CICS® VR manually

    IBM® recommends that you use the CICS® VR panel interface to create recovery jobs for your VSAM spheres. Using the CICS VR panel interface eliminates the need for you to manually keep track of daily update activity, logs, backups, etc. Also, the CICS VR panel interface automatically creates the recovery JCL for you.

  • Running CICS® VR batch backout

    The CICS® VR batch backout utility allows you to remove updates that were made to KSDS, ESDS, RRDS, and VRRDS VSAM spheres by steps in a batch job. This section describes how to run the CICS VR batch backout utility.

  • Understanding CICS® VR reports

    The CICS® VR forward recovery and batch backout utilities produce a set of reports upon successful completion. The reports are written to the data set allocated to the DWWPRINT ddname. However, the set of reports written for the forward recovery backout utilities differ from the set of reports written for the batch backout utilities.

  • Understanding IBM® program support

    The IBM® Customer Engineering Program Support structure helps you resolve problems with IBM products, and ensures that you can make the best use of your IBM computing systems.

  • Problem determination procedures

    If you have to contact IBM® personnel about a CICS® VR problem, you must classify and describe the problem.

  • Diagnosing the causes of abends

    You can determine the cause of a CICS® VR abend in a number of ways.

  • Reference information

    The reference sections of the information contain reference information that you need when you use CICS® VR.

  • Glossary

    The terms in this glossary are defined as they pertain to the CICS VSAM Recovery documentation.

  • Edition notice

    This is the information for CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS. It applies to CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS Version 6.3, and to all subsequent versions, releases, and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions. Make sure you are using the correct edition for the level of the product.

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    Download the PDF format documentation for CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS 6.3

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Preparing for Reorganization

When preparing for reorganization, the started tasks DWWCBINF, DWWCBRRY and DWWCBRRG are defined.

Before you begin

See sections Preparing for Automated Recovery, and step Preparing for Automated Recovery onwards, for more information.

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