Deciding how to group your backups

If you use CICS® VR CA, IBM® recommends that you create CA groups containing VSAM spheres that have the same backup requirements.

• First, schedule backups for all the VSAM spheres in a CA group at the same time.
• Second, when all the backups have completed successfully, rerun the CA batch job for that CA group. See Setting up CICS VR change accumulation for more information.

Use this process for all the CA groups you have defined. This process prevents CICS VR from reading all the records in the CA data set and not applying any of them because they occurred prior to the backup.