CICS VR commands

A table of descriptions of CICS® VR functions and commands used with CICS TS.

Table 1. CICS VR commands used with CICS TS
Function Commands
Forward recovery

ALLOCATE
BLDVRP
DEFEXIT
EXCLUDE
INCLUDE
MVSLOG
RECOVER
VSAMSTART
VSAMEND

Log stream copy

DEFEXIT
LOGSTREAMCOPY
MVSLOG

Log of logs scan LOGOFLOGS
Change accumulation

CA
SPHERE

Export or import the RCDS RCDS
Batch Backout

BATCHBACK
DEFEXIT
MVSLOG

Notify CICS VR then a VSAM sphere backup is created

NOTIFY

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