Control statements for RECOVER function

The RECOVER function lets you delete or requeue selected messages from the cold shared queue.

A copy of each processed message is written to the RECOVER data set, if the RECOVER data set is present, and if REPORTONLY is not specified.

The control statements that are recognized by the RECOVER function are:

  • * comment
  • EXCLUDE
  • FUNCTION
  • INCLUDE
  • SELECT
  • TITLE

RECOVER control statement abbreviations

You can abbreviate the specification of some of the RECOVER control statements.

The following table shows a list of RECOVER keyword abbreviations that are allowed by the IMS Queue Control Facility control processing interpreter.

Table 1. IMS Queue Control Facility control processing RECOVER keyword abbreviations
Keyword Abbreviation
EXCLUDE EX
FUNCTION FU
INCLUDE IN
SELECT SE