Selecting from the VSAM sphere list

After you enter search criteria or the name of a data set on the CICS® VR VSAM sphere list secondary window, the CICS VR VSAM sphere list panel is displayed. The spheres listed either match the search criteria that you entered or are listed in the data set that you specified.

Enter S next to each of the VSAM spheres for which you want to create a recovery job.

Requirement: When you use CICS VR to create a recovery job for one or more VSAM spheres, ensure that none of those VSAM spheres is available for updates by CICS or batch applications, if you are using the CICS VR batch logger. These data sets must remain unavailable until the CICS VR recovery job has been run successfully to ensure that the data sets do not become inconsistent.

Forward recovery is performed for each of the VSAM Spheres selected from the list. Each recovery task can have different settings, as described in Providing VSAM sphere recovery parameters.

You can use a set of default parameters for all the recovery tasks. Enter Y in the Use default parameters for selected spheres field to use default parameters for all the selected VSAM spheres. For further information, see Specifying default recovery parameters.

Figure 1. VSAM sphere list panel. Use S in the first column to select a VSAM sphere.
   Administrate  Utilities  Tools  List  View  Help
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                                 CICS VSAM sphere list                     Row 1 to 4 of 33
                                                                                           
                                                                                           
  Select one or more VSAM spheres, then select an action.
 
   N  Use default parameters for selected spheres
   S  VSAM sphere                                    Scan time(local) RR bit
                                                                      
   _  CICS10.ACCOUNT1.BASE                           08.159 12:34.56  Y
   _  CICS10.ACCOUNT2.BASE                           08.159 12:43.56  Y
   _  CICS10.ACCOUNT3.BASE                           08.159 12:34.56  Y
   _  PAYROLL.PROD1.BASE                             08.159 12:34.56  N
   _  PAYROLL.PROD2.BASE                             08.159 12:34.56  N
   _  PAYROLL.PROD3.BASE                             08.159 12:34.56  N
   _  CICS10.PROD1.BASE                              08.159 12:34.56  N
   _  CICS10.PROD2.BASE                              08.159 12:34.56  N
   _  CICS10.PROD3.BASE                              08.159 12:34.56  N
   _  CICS10.PROD4.BASE                              08.159 12:34.56  N
   _  CICS10.PROD5.BASE                              08.159 12:34.56  N
   _  TEST.SMERRY.RLS                                08.159 12:34.56  Y

 Command ===> __________________________________________________________________
 F1=Help     F3=Exit       F4=Reorg      F5=FwdRec     F6=Backup    F7=Bkwd
 F8=Fwd      F10=Menu Bar  F11=Dereg    F12=Cancel
From the CICS VR VSAM sphere list panel, select an action by using one of the shortcut function keys, or select one of the pull-down menus:
  • Administrate
  • Utilities
  • Tools
  • List
  • View
  • Help

To do a forward recovery select 2. Forward recovery from the Utilities menu at the top. Alternatively, you can press F5 after selecting the VSAM sphere. Once the VSAM sphere is selected, The Log of Logs scan type selection panel is displayed from which you can choose to scan all log of logs or a specific log of logs.