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Recovery to dddd will be performed even though the backup-while-open flags in the ICF catalog have a setting of vvv.

CICS® VR has interrogated the backup-while-open (BWO) flags in the ICF catalog for data set dddd, and has determined that the value of vvv should not prevent recovery from continuing. These details and descriptions of acceptable BWO flag settings assume that you are recovering to the backup of the data set, and not to the native data set as left by CICS®:
100, 110 The data set is back level. It is restored from a DFSMSdss™ physical dump, made when the data set is eligible for BWO, either when it is open in CICS®, or after CICS® had shut down in an uncontrolled manner when the data set is still open.
011 This BWO flag setting will only produce the warning message if you are running CICS® VR forward recovery. The data set is back level, and is restored from a DFSMSdss™ physical dump, made after the this series of events:
  1. The data set is eligible for BWO processing.
  2. A control-interval or control-area split occurred and completed.
  3. CICS® closed the file.
For recovery, the data set is considered to be restored from a non-BWO backup.

Note: CICS® VR cannot detect whether updates are in progress, and if splits occurred during a DFSMSdss™ physical dump. Only the DFSMSdss™ logical dump function is sensitive to the BWO flag settings and thus automatically preserves data integrity.

CICS® VR continues with the recovery run.

  • Batch–Although recovery is performed, investigate why the BWO flags had these settings, before allowing the data set to be returned to CICS®.
  • Online–Although recovery is performed, investigate why the BWO flags had these settings, before allowing the data set to be returned to CICS®.