Creating and running a forward recovery task

When you create and run a forward recovery task you can select the specific VSAM spheres or data sets that you want to forward recover. You can edit the CICS® VR recovery parameters and product a test report.

  1. If you are running CICS® VR for the first time , select option 5 from the CICS® VR main menu and customize the JCL skeleton, as described in Customizing the JCL skeletonEditing the CICS VR JCL skeleton.
  2. Select Log of Logs Scan type and run Log of logs scan to update the RCDS with the latest information. You can either choose to scan all log of logs or do a selective log of logs scanning to create the recovery job.
  3. Obtain a list of VSAM spheres:
    1. Select option 1 from the CICS® VR main menu. A secondary window is displayed.
    2. Specify search criteria for the list of VSAM spheres, or specify the name of the data set that contains a list of VSAM spheres, as described in Specifying criteria for the VSAM sphere list. Press Enter.
    3. A list of spheres that are registered with CICS® VR is displayed. These spheres either match the search criteria you entered, or are listed in the data set that you specified. Select the VSAM spheres that you want to recover, as described in Selecting from the VSAM sphere list.

      To use one set of recovery parameters for all of the selected VSAM spheres, enter Y in the Use default parameters for selected spheres field, as described in Specifying default recovery parameters.

  4. Select the Utilities pull-down menu and choose option 2 for Forward recovery, or press the FwdRec key, F5. A secondary window opens.
  5. Enter the recovery parameters in the secondary window for the VSAM sphere that is displayed, as described in Providing VSAM sphere recovery parameters. Repeat this step until you have supplied the recovery parameters for all of the VSAM spheres that you selected.

    When you have entered all of the necessary information on the panels, a message is displayed in the CICS® VR wait secondary window shown in Applying entered parameters, asking you to wait while the recovery job is being constructed.

  6. A secondary window opens that allows you to change the parameters that CICS® VR specifies in the recovery job, as described in Entering recovery parameters. Select and change any of the listed parameters.
  7. Submit the job that CICS® VR creates for you, as described in Submitting the job.
  8. Optional: A TEST command is available. The command runs a forward recovery or backout job, but does not update any VSAM spheres or RCDS. A report is produced at the end of the command. See the CICS® VR Implementation Guide and Reference for more information.See, TEST: Run without updates to VSAM spheres for more information.

The following topics describe each task in more detail.