CICS® VR 6.3 contains these changes.
CICS® VR uses logs to recover your VSAM data.
CICS® VR forward recovery consists of a restore and then forward recovery.
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.
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.
The CICS® VR recovery and backup functions are typically accessed using the Utilities pull-down menu after selecting VSAM spheres.
The CICS® Backout Failed sphere list shows the CICS spheres registered for manual recovery or reorganization after CICS notification of a backout failure.
On the CICS® VR log stream list panel, a list of all MVS™ log streams and SAM copies of log streams that are registered in the recovery control data set (RCDS) are displayed.
CICS® VR log stream list
Use the CICS® VR log of logs list panel pull-down menu to re-display the log stream list by specifying search or sort criteria. This panel lists all the log of logs that are registered in the recovery control data set (RCDS).
CICS® VR log of logs list
CICS® VR provides automatic deregistration to stop the RCDS from filling up. Periodically automatic deregistration removes outdated information from the RCDS, based on retention criteria you set. CICS VR can delete and uncatalog certain entities when they are deregistered from the RCDS.
At various locations throughout the CICS® VR panel interface, CICS VR writes messages to the data set allocated to the DWWMSG ddname when the specific error conditions are detected.
Use the CICS® VR main menu to customize all CICS VR settings, such as Undo logs.
CICS® VR main menu
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you have to contact IBM® personnel about a CICS® VR problem, you must classify and describe the problem.
You can determine the cause of a CICS® VR abend in a number of ways.
The reference sections of the information contain reference information that you need when you use CICS® VR.
The terms in this glossary are defined as they pertain to the CICS VSAM Recovery documentation.
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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