New operational procedures may be needed in a number of areas as a result of using VSAM RLS support. Areas to consider include:
To make sure that non-IBM products or user programs do not compromise the integrity of data in coupling facility caches when they modify the data on a volume, you should either vary the volume offline to each system in the sysplex, or CF-quiesce the volume using the
V SMS,CFVOL(volid),QUIESCE
command before running such programs
Make sure that this does not happen. You should convert RESERVEs on other volumes into enqueues.
This subject is in greater detail in the CICS® Recovery and Restart Guide.
The differences from forward recovery for non-RLS access are:
Refer to the DFSMS/MVS Version 1 Release 3 documentation for more details.