Making nondaily backups of your VSAM spheres

If you do not make daily backups of your VSAM spheres, CICS® VR can still easily recreate it using the backup. CICS VR needs to apply more changes, perhaps several days' worth of transactions, to bring the VSAM sphere back to the exact state before the data was lost. You can significantly speed up forward recovery processing for nondaily backups by using CICS VR change accumulation. See Setting up CICS VR change accumulation for more information on change accumulation.