Using the Utilities pull-down menu

You can use the Utilities pull-down menu for Recovery, Recovery with Backup, or Reorganization tasks on the selected CICS® Backout Failed sphere.

After selecting the VSAM sphere for recovery, recovery with backup, or reorganization, press F10 to open the menu bar, place the cursor under Utilities and press Enter.

The CICS® Backout Failed sphere list panel displays the Utilities pull-down menu.

Figure 1. The CICS® Backout Failed sphere list panel Utilities pull-down menu

Administrate  Utilities  List  Help
------------- .----------------------------. ---------------------------------
              | 1. Recovery...          F5 | here list         Row 1 to 3 of 3
Command ===>  | 2. Recovery and Backup...  |
              | 3. Reorganization       F6 |
Select one sp '----------------------------'


  S  VSAM sphere                               Time (Local)           Error
     CICSMVS.TST33.KSDS01                      08.033 10:00:00        IOERROR
     CICSMVS.TST33.KSDS02                      08.033 10:00:00        NOSPACE
     CICSMVS.TST33.KSDS03                      08.033 10:00:00        AIXFULL
 ******************************* Bottom of data ********************************

F1=Help     F3=Exit      F4=ListDet   F5=Recov     F6=Reorg     F7=Bkwd
F8=Fwd      F10=Menu bar F11=Dereg    F12=Cancel

From this pull-down menu, you can select the utility that corresponds to the error value for the selected sphere.

Recovery

Recovery builds a job to perform these tasks:

Take the sphere offline from CICS®.
Forward recover the sphere.
Put the sphere back online to CICS®, and instruct CICS® to try to backout again.

Select this utility in one of the following ways:

Select option 1 for forward recovery.
Move the cursor to the Recovery item in the pull-down menu, and press Enter.
Press the CICS® VR forward recovery shortcut function key F5.

Recovery and Backup

Recovery and Backup builds a job to perform these tasks:

Take the sphere offline from CICS®.
Forward recover the sphere.
Take a backup of the sphere.
Put the sphere back online to CICS®, and instruct CICS® to retry its backout.

Select this utility in one of the following ways:

Select option 2 for forward recovery and backup.
Move the cursor to the Recovery item in the pull-down menu, and press Enter.

Reorganization

Reorganization builds a job to perform these tasks:

Take the sphere offline from CICS®.
Delete and redefine the sphere with more space or a bigger alternate index record size.
Put the sphere back online to CICS®, and instruct CICS® to retry its backout.

Select this utility in one of the following ways:

Select option 3 for reorganization.
Move the cursor to the Reorganization item in the pull-down menu, and press Enter.
Press the CICS® VR forward recovery shortcut function key F6.

To obtain information about each menu item, move the cursor to an item and press F1.