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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.
Reports produced by forward recovery
Examples and description of every report produced by CICS® VR forward recovery.
Report descriptions
Descriptions of the information that is provided in the three types of statistical reports produced by the CICS® VR RECOVER function.
Recovery progress report
Description of the information in the recovery progress report.

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
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.
- Reports produced by forward recovery
  Examples and description of every report produced by CICS® VR forward recovery.
  - RECOVER—DWWPRINT output
  - Report descriptions
    Descriptions of the information that is provided in the three types of statistical reports produced by the CICS® VR RECOVER function.
    - MVS™ log stream statistics, log statistics, and journal data set statistics
      Description of the information provided using this report header which depends on which type of log you are using in the recovery.
    - Statistics of recovered data sets
      A description of the information that is provided in the recovered data statistical report.
    - Exit action statistics
      Description of the information that is provided in this statistical report:
    - Recovery progress report
      Description of the information in the recovery progress report.
- Reports produced by batch backout
  Examples and descriptions of every report produced by CICS® VR batch backout.
- Reports produced by RCDS REPORT
  Examples of every report produced by CICS® VR RCDS REPORT.
- Reports produced by PRINT
  This topic contains information about the reports produced by CICS® VR PRINT.
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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Recovery progress report

Description of the information in the recovery progress report.

The number of steps in the recovery job
VSAM RLS processing
DFSMShsm™ processing
Alternate Index removal and rebuilding

During CICS® VR recovery, error or informational messages might be written to the DWWMSG file.

For details of CICS® VR messages and abend codes, see CICS VR Messages and abend codesCICS® VR Messages and Problem Determination.