Inventory scavenger

The CICS® VR inventory scavenger is automatically run at regularly scheduled times as described in the CICS VR User's Guide. Every time the inventory scavenger is run, CICS VR automatic deregistration occurs.

CICS VR uses a customized version of the inventory scavenger JCL skeleton to run the inventory scavenger job at regularly scheduled times, or manually at convenient times. The skeleton is located in member DWWARSCI of the CICS VR library SDWWCNTL. Edit the JOB statement in the inventory scavenger JCL skeleton to conform to the environment standards. Copy the updated DWWARSCI member into the PROCLIB library. If RACF®, or a similar security product is in place, define the DWWARSCI started task to RACF and assign it to a user ID with the appropriate authorization to browse the output of the inventory scavenger job.

The start of the inventory scavenger job is preceded by a message DWW246I:

DWW246I APPLICATION INVSCAV ( DWWXXXXX ) SUCCESSFULLY RAN.

where DWWXXXXX is a unique job name across a sysplex.