Automated Recovery and Reorganization

This section describes the tasks to perform when enabling automated recovery in CICS® VR V4R1.

If a VSAM data set in use by CICS fails, perhaps because of physical damage to a disk, CICS VR is used to perform forward recovery of the data set.

Prior to CICS VR V4R2 the forward recovery task had to be started manually. The CICS VR dialog interface, via ISPF, was used to create a recovery job using the corresponding panels.

Similarly, if a VSAM data set needed reorganization, for example due to NOSPACE or AIX® Full condition, corresponding manual steps had to be performed to create a reorganization job.

In CICS VR V4R2 the creation of recovery or reorganization jobs is provided, in addition to the existing recovery or reorganization procedures.