Gathering the required information

Starting with this information, your record keeping system must give all the information needed to create the recovery job. It can be useful to have a form detailing the information required for the recovery.

When a problem has occurred, you can perform recovery if you know this information:

Name of the base cluster
Date and time the problem occurred

You require at least the information shown here, the data recorded in the table is sample data only.

Table 1. Information Required for Recovery
General information
Is the CICS® VR recovery function required?	NO
Data set name of damaged base cluster.	PAYROLL.BASE
Data set name of paths.	PAYROLL.PATH1
Base cluster file names.	PAYROLL
Path file names.	PAYP1
*Forward recovery*
Data set name of backup to be restored.	PAYROLL.BASE.BACKUP
Date and time the backup was made.	01159.2000
Is the backup an online backup?	NO
Data set names of logs.	MVSLOG1.PROD.SYS1
Date and time the earliest log was opened.	01159/0800
Record format.	N/A

Once you have decided which function you have to run and have the required information available, you can start the recovery process.