CICS® VR
supports backups created by a variety of products.
However, the amount and type of support for the backup products
differ. This section further discusses each of the backup types supported
by CICS VR.
Using DFSMShsm as your backup utility
If your VSAM spheres are managed by DFSMS/MVS, DFSMShsm logical backups provide the most
support with the least amount of effort required to set up for use
with CICS VR.
Using ABARS as your backup utility
ABARS backups are fully supported by CICS VR for recovery and change accumulation. CICS VR
provides the ability to keep an inventory of ABARS backups in the RCDS. CICS VR
also contains support to display and restore the registered backups.
Using other products as your backup utility
If you are using another logical backup product ( IBM® or non-IBM)
not previously listed, CICS VR contains general backup support that allows
an inventory of the backups to be maintained in the CICS VR RCDS.
Understanding group restore capability
CICS VR
provides group restore capabilities for backup products which create backups
containing data for several data sets.