Understanding CICS VR reports

The CICS® VR forward recovery and batch backout utilities produce a set of reports upon successful completion. The reports are written to the data set allocated to the DWWPRINT ddname. However, the set of reports written for the forward recovery backout utilities differ from the set of reports written for the batch backout utilities.

CICS VR forward recovery produces the following three reports:

Log data set statistics (Report of log data set statistics)
Statistics on data sets that have been recovered (Report of recovered data sets statistics)
Exit action statistics (Report of exit action statistics)

Forward recovery can also produce a recovery progress report. The following section, Reports produced by forward recovery, contains an example and description of each report produced by the CICS VR forward recovery utilities.

CICS VR batch backout produces the following three reports:

Batch backout job step statistics (Batch backout job step statistics example)
Batch backout data set statistics (Batch backout data set statistics example)
Batch backout exit action statistics (Batch backout exit action statistics example)

The section Reports produced by batch backout contains an example and description of each report produced by the CICS VR batch backout utility.

The archive utility can produce up to three different reports in the DWWPRINT file. For examples of the archive reports see Using the CICS VR archive exitsCICS VR Implementation Guide and Reference.