User Customized Recovery Step Information

You can add you own customized (user recovery) information to either the PROLOG or any STEP in the System Recovery Report. You might want to add user recovery information to your system recovery reports to convey additional guidance, special instructions, or site procedures to the recovery team. Since this is user recovery information which you control, there is no limit to the content and how it is used.

To add user recovery information to the recovery report, you create the records containing the information in members of file QO1AUSRRCY in library QUSRBRM. For example, you would add records to member PROLOG to add user recovery information to the prolog information in the report. Likewise, you would add records to member STEP004 to add user recovery information specific to STEP 004 in the report. The file members are automatically created during product initialization.

The following example illustrates how easy it is to add user recovery information to the recovery report:

1. Use the Work with Members Using PDM (WRKMBRPDM) or Work with Members Using SEU (STRSEU) command specifying QUSRBRM/QO1AUSRRCY for the File (FILE) or Source file (SRCFILE) parameter respectively.
2. Specify 2=Edit for the Option next to the PROLOG member, then press Enter.
3. Enter the text shown in lines 1–9 below or enter your own user recovery information.
   Note:

   Use F13=Change session defaults to change uppercase/lowercase options as necessary.

    Columns . . . :    1  71            Edit                    QUSRBRM/QO1AUSRRCY 
    SEU==>                                                                  PROLOG 
    FMT **  ...+... 1 ...+... 2 ...+... 3 ...+... 4 ...+... 5 ...+... 6 ...+... 7  
           *************** Beginning of data ************************************* 
   0001.00                                                                         
   0002.00 ****** Special instructions for the system recovery team *******        
   0003.00                                                                         
   0004.00 Steps  2, 4, 9, 11 and 12 contain special instructions for system       
   0005.00 recovery. Prior to implementing the recovery actions in these steps,    
   0006.00 first review the User Recovery Information block for additional         
   0007.00 instructions.                                                           
   0008.00                                                                         
   0009.00 ****************************************************************        
           ****************** End of data **************************************** 
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
    F3=Exit   F4=Prompt   F5=Refresh   F9=Retrieve   F10=Cursor   F11=Toggle       
    F16=Repeat find       F17=Repeat change          F24=More keys                 

4. Verify the user recovery information for correctness then press F3=Exit.
5. Press Enter on the Exit panel to save the changes.
6. Run the Start Recovery using BRM (STRRCYBRM) command and specify *ADD for the User recovery information (USRRCYINF) parameter.

   STRRCYBRM USRRCYINF(*ADD)

7. Use the Work with All Spooled Files (WRKSPLF) command and page down to the most recent version of file System Recovery Report (QP1ARCY).
8. Specify 5=Display for the Option next to the QP1ARCY file, and then press Enter.
9. Page down to the bottom of the prolog information about the report (just prior to STEP 001) and review the user recovery information.

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If the recovery includes saved items saved to TSM servers or saved          
from auxiliary disk pool devices, these saved items will be recovered       
after the IPL when these resources become available.                        
                                                                            
    -----  User Recovery Information  ------------------------------------- 
                                                                            
        ****** Special instructions for the system recovery team *******    
                                                                            
        Steps  2, 4, 9, 11 and 12 contain special instructions for system   
        recovery. Prior to implementing the recovery actions in these steps,
        first review the User Recovery Information block for additional     
        instructions.                                                       
                                                                            
        ****************************************************************    
                                                                            
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 __ STEP 001 : Recover Licensed Internal Code                              
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The following provides some additional usage information about user recovery information.

• User recovery information is added to the report following the BRMS information and before any saved items in the step. This information is clearly highlighted on the report as User Recovery Information.
• Each record in the file member is read sequentially , starting from the first record and ending with the last record, and is added to the report in the same order as read. BRMS performs no national language or CCSID conversions on the records.
• Each user recovery information record is placed on the report starting in column 8 and ending in column 99.
• The user is responsible for all spacing, positioning, content and accuracy of the recovery information in the records.
• Up to 92 bytes of user recovery information can be added to each record.
• There is no limit to the number of records you can add for a member.
• The member can contain double byte characters as long as these characters and the corresponding shift-out and shift-in brackets are contained within the same record.
• No user recovery information is shown for members in file QO1AUSRRCY which have no records.
• File QO1AUSRRCY is saved with each save of the BRMS media information.
• The step numbers in the report are dynamic and could vary depending on the value of the Option (OPTION) parameter and the content of the recovery. If the OPTION or content is changed, the names of the members in file QO1AUSRRCY may need to be renamed accordingly. The step numbers in the report for version/release should be consistent if the report type and saved item content are consistent.