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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.

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.
- The VSAM sphere list Administrate pull-down menu
  Use the Administrate pull-down menu to register VSAM spheres in the CICS® VR RCDS, deregister selected VSAM spheres from the CICS VR RCDS, and exit from the CICS VR VSAM sphere list.
- Using the VSAM sphere list tools pull-down menu
  Use the VSAM sphere list tools pull-down menu to set RLS options for the VSAM spheres.
- Using the VSAM sphere list panel list pull-down menu
  You can list logical backups, RLS details and data set names for selected VSAM spheres.
- Using the VSAM sphere list View pull-down menu
  Use the View pull-down menu to redisplay, sort, or filter the list of VSAM spheres.
- Using the VSAM sphere list Help pull-down menu
  A description of the pull-down menu choices.
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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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.

CICS® VR provides other pull-down menus on the VSAM sphere list panel, allowing you to perform other tasks using the selected spheres. This section provides details on the additional pull-down menu functions.

The Administrate pull-down menu is described in The VSAM sphere list Administrate pull-down menu. Use this pull-down menu to register the VSAM spheres in the RCDS, as detailed in Registering a VSAM sphere in the RCDS, and deregister the selected VSAM spheres from the recovery control data set (RCDS), as detailed in Deregistering a VSAM sphere from the RCDS.
The Tools pull-down menu is described in Using the VSAM sphere list tools pull-down menu. Use this menu to perform these tasks:
- Use RLS protocols during recovery processing of RLS-accessed VSAM data sets as described in CICS VR RLS processing (RR bit).
- Use the scan option to specify whether CICS® VR automatically scans the registered log of logs before a recovery job is constructed, as described in Using the CICS VR scan option.
The List pull-down menu is described in Using the VSAM sphere list panel list pull-down menu.
- List backups, as described in Listing logical backups.
- List RLS details, as described in Listing RLS details.
- List backup names, as described in Listing backup names.
The list details can be presented using either local time or GMT, as described in Switching time format.
The View pull-down menu is described in Using the VSAM sphere list View pull-down menu. Use this menu to redisplay, sort, or filter the list of VSAM spheres.
The Help pull-down menu is described in Using the VSAM sphere list Help pull-down menu.