Using the CICS VR scan option

You can specify whether CICS® VR automatically scans the registered log of logs before a recovery job is constructed.

Select option 6, Set scan option to display the CICS VR scan option panel. The default value for this option is 1; indicating that CICS VR performs a log of logs scan unless you change the value.

Figure 1. CICS VR scan option
                            CICSVR scan option
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Specify if CICSVR should scan the registered log of logs before the
recovery job is constructed.  Only select option 2 if you are sure that
CICSVR already has all of the information necessary to construct a
recovery job for the previously selected VSAM spheres.

  Specify if CICSVR
  should scan the log
  of logs. . . . . . . 1   1.  Perform LOGOFLOGS SCAN
                           2.  No scan is needed


 F1=Help    F12=Cancel
Use the Specify if CICS VR should scan the log of logs field to specify whether CICS VR scans the registered log of logs before CICS VR constructs the recovery job. The LOGOFLOGS SCAN obtains the information necessary to create a recovery job. Select one of the following options:
  • Select 1, the default value, so that CICS VR scans the registered log of logs before CICS VR constructs the recovery job.

    Recommendation: Except for unusual situations, use the default, option 1, when creating a recovery job.

  • Select 2 so that CICS VR does not scan the registered log of logs before CICS VR constructs the recovery job. For example, you might select option 2 in the following situations:
    • You have recently run a log of logs scan to specifically scan only the log of logs related to the VSAM spheres for which you are creating a recovery job. In this situation, you do not want CICS VR to scan all of the log of logs registered to CICS VR because the related log of logs were scanned. This assumes that no updates have been made to the VSAM spheres for which you are creating a recovery job since the selective log of logs scan ran.
    • The forward recovery stop time that you are going to specify for the selected VSAM spheres is earlier than the last time the log of logs was scanned.
    • CICS VR VSAM batch logging is the only type of logging done for the VSAM spheres that you are recovering.

Restriction: Each time you return the VSAM sphere list, the value in the Specify if CICS VR should scan the log of logs field is reset to the default value of 1.