Using the CICS® VR panel interface can significantly reduce the amount of effort and time required to recover your VSAM data.
From the CICS VR panel interface, you can select the VSAM spheres you want to recover and the backups you want to restore. Then, using information stored in the RCDS along with your entered parameters, the CICS VR panel interface builds a recovery job to restore the VSAM spheres from the selected backups and perform a forward recovery on the restored spheres. Additionally, the CICS VR panel interface can be used to view information stored in the RCDS about VSAM spheres and related entities, such as log streams and log stream copies, and view and change various CICS VR settings, such as automatic deregistration.
CICS VR dialogs run under ISPF, so you must set up an appropriate ISPF environment. If you are not familiar with ISPF dialogs, see z/OS® ISPF Dialog Developer's Guide and Reference or OS/390® ISPF Dialog Developer's Guide and Reference.
CICS VR provides the VSAMREC line operator and list command that can be issued from the ISMF data set list. Use the ISMF data set list feature to group VSAM spheres based on user-defined selection criteria. Issue VSAMREC from the ISMF data set list to start the CICS VR panels, allowing you to create a recovery job for individual or all data sets in the list. See VSAMREC CLIST for more information.