Forward recovery operation planning

If you want to use forward recovery, you need to plan the following tasks:

Regular operational tasks
- Backup of VSAM data sets
- Archive of redo logs
- Eventual deletion of redo logs
VSAM recovery tasks
- Reallocate the VSAM data set
- Restore the backup
- Use a product such as CICSVR to apply the forward recovery logs.

Basically, backups of VSAM data sets are not used on their own. You perform forward recovery to return the data sets right up to the point of a failure.