CICS VSAM Recovery

IBM CICS VSAM Recovery (CICSVR) recovers lost or damaged VSAM data sets. CICSVR is for organizations where the availability and integrity of VSAM data is vital. CICSVR provides automated complete recovery, forward recovery, and backout functions, as well as logging for batch applications.

The following are some of the tasks that you can perform with CICSVR:

Perform complete recovery to restore and recover lost or damaged VSAM data sets that were updated by CICS and batch applications.
Perform logging for batch applications.
Recover groups of VSAM data sets.
Process backup-while-open (BWO) VSAM data sets.
Automate the creation and submission of recovery jobs using an ISPF dialog interface.
Use Change Accumulation to consolidate log records and reduce the amount of time required to recover a VSAM data set.
Use Selective Forward Recovery to control which log records get applied to the VSAM data set when you recover it.

Related reading: For more information, see IBM CICS VSAM Recovery Implementation Guide.