Viewing registration errors

After you specify the VSAMREC line operator for a data set, CICS® VR verifies that the data set is registered in the CICS VR RCDS. If the data set is registered, CICS VR creates a recovery job for the sphere.

If the data set is not registered in the CICS VR RCDS, CICS VR cannot create a recovery job for the sphere and an error message is written to the data set allocated to the DWWMSG ddname. The DWWMSG data set is then opened for VIEW.

Figure 1. VIEW of DWWMSG data set
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A VSAM sphere is registered to CICS VR during the following activities:
  • LOGOFLOGS SCAN
  • CICS VR batch logging
  • Registration of a logical backup for the VSAM sphere in the CICS VR RCDS
  • Notification of a CICS backout failure for the VSAM sphere

For more information regarding registering VSAM spheres, see Creating groups of VSAM spheresCICS VR Implementation Guide and Reference.

Press F3 to exit the VIEW of the DWWMSG data set and return to the ISMF DATA SET LIST panel.