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.

The registered logical backups can then be fully supported and used by CICS VR recovery and change accumulation.

Note: Any backup product can be used with CICS VR. However, if you do not register the backup with CICS VR, you must manually restore the backup, then use the CICS VR panel interface to build and submit a forward recovery job; select NONE as the backup type.

CICS VR enhances the file copy notification service by recording file attributes during notification, and then uses these attributes to allocate the target data set dynamically, before restore or recovery processing. For other backup products, CICS VR notification calls can be included by using the PREALLOCATION REQUIRED flag, as discussed in Optional parameters.