CICS® VR
Version 4 Release 2 contains these changes.
- Support for ABARS backups
- ABARS backups are now included in the set of types supported by CICS VR automatic
restore. ABARS notifies CICS VR of backups, then CICS VR adds the backups to the inventory. CICS VR
provides ISPF panels to enable recovery for ABARS data sets.
- Individual criteria can be specified for log streams
- Using the CICS VR
interface, you can set a retention period for MVS™ log streams and log of logs streams.
The retention period for blocks value applies to all registered log streams. CICS VR
allow you to specify individual retention criteria for log streams registered
to CICS VR.
- NOTIFY utility
- CICS VR
has a NOTIFY utility. This utility intended to be used for any backup of a
VSAM sphere created by an IBM® or non-IBM product. When notified, CICS VR registers
information about the backup in the CICS VR RCDS. Information about the backup
is visible through the CICS VR panel interface.
- Hardware backup support
- Additional support for hardware backups has been provided. A new keyword
to indicate the use of a hardware backup has been added to the RECOVER command.
- Enhancement to DWWEFCBF program
- The DWWEFCBF program enables program DWWXFCBF at exit XFCBFAIL with parameters
optimized for the CICS TS version. No user configuration changes are required
to enable this change.
- Extended ESDS support
- CICS VR
supports Extended Addressability for ESDS, for CICS updates and for CICS VR Batch
Logging. No user configuration changes are required to enable this change.
- SMS tape data sets deregistration
- CICS VR
deregistration of SMS tape data sets now uncatalogs and deletes the data sets.
No user configuration changes are required to enable this change.
- New CICS VR
journal print utility
- There is sometimes a need to print the contents of MVS logs and to find information about records
logged on them. CICS VR
can print records logged by CICS VR or CICS on MVS logs.
- Automatic and manual invocation of log of logs scan utility
- CICS VR
can run the log of logs scan automatically, at regularly scheduled times. CICS VR
can also run the log of logs scan manually, at more convenient times.
- Multiple undo logs support
- The new CICS VR
logger feature allows a user to have several undo logs on a system, and customize
their usage by defining UserID, JobID and HLQ associations.