You can use the Utilities pull-down menu
for Recovery, Recovery with Backup, or Reorganization tasks on the selected CICS® Backout
Failed sphere.
After selecting the VSAM sphere for recovery, recovery with backup, or
reorganization, press F10 to open the menu bar, place the cursor under Utilities and
press Enter.
The "CICS Backout
Failed sphere list" panel displays the Utilities pull-down
menu.
Figure 1. The CICS Backout
Failed sphere list panel Utilities pull-down menuAdministrate Utilities List Help
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| 1. Recovery... F5 | here list Row 1 to 3 of 3
Command ===> | 2. Recovery and Backup... |
| 3. Reorganization F6 |
Select one sp '----------------------------'
S VSAM sphere Time (Local) Error
CICSMVS.TST33.KSDS01 08.033 10:00:00 IOERROR
CICSMVS.TST33.KSDS02 08.033 10:00:00 NOSPACE
CICSMVS.TST33.KSDS03 08.033 10:00:00 AIXFULL
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F1=Help F3=Exit F4=ListDet F5=Recov F6=Reorg F7=Bkwd
F8=Fwd F10=Menu bar F11=Dereg F12=Cancel
From this pull-down menu, you can select the utility that corresponds to
the error value for the selected sphere.
- Recovery
Recovery builds a job to perform these tasks:
- Take the sphere offline from CICS.
- Forward recover the sphere.
- Put the sphere back online to CICS, and instruct CICS to retry its backout.
Select this utility in one of the following ways:- Select option 1 for forward recovery.
- Move the cursor to the Recovery item in the pull-down
menu, and press Enter.
- Press the CICS VR
forward recovery shortcut function key F5.
- Recovery and Backup
Recovery and Backup builds a job to perform these tasks:
- Take the sphere offline from CICS.
- Forward recover the sphere.
- Take a backup of the sphere.
- Put the sphere back online to CICS, and instruct CICS to retry its backout.
Select this utility in one of the following ways:- Select option 2 for forward recovery and backup.
- Move the cursor to the Recovery item in the pull-down
menu, and press Enter.
- Reorganization
Reorganization builds a job to perform these tasks:
- Take the sphere offline from CICS.
- Delete and redefine the sphere with more space or a bigger alternate index
record size.
- Put the sphere back online to CICS, and instruct CICS to retry its backout.
Select this utility in one of the following ways:- Select option 3 for reorganization.
- Move the cursor to the Reorganization item in the
pull-down menu, and press Enter.
- Press the CICS VR
forward recovery shortcut function key F6.
To obtain information about each menu item, move the cursor to an item
and press F1.