Recovering historical versions of multiple resource definitions
You can specify criteria that identifies a set of resource definition changes, such as changes within a specified time period by a particular user, and then either undo or redo those changes in a single step. Here, "undo" means to recover the before images of a set of changes, and "redo" means to recover the after images.
To recover the before or after images of a set of changes:
- Select primary menu option 4.3 Historical Reports: CICS definitions.
- Specify the criteria of the changes that you want to undo or redo.
- Type REC next to each of the
changes that you want to select for recovery, and then press Enter.Tip: To select all of the changes that match the criteria you specified, enter REC * on the command line, and then press Enter again.Restrictions:
- All of the changes that you select must be for the same CICS® configuration. You cannot mix changes for multiple CICS configurations in a single recovery action.
- You cannot recover changes to CICSPlex® SM relationships, such as Add and Remove (that is, changes to xxxINGRP resource definition types). However, you can recover changes to the resource definition types List, ResGroup, and ResDesc.
- Specify whether you want to recover the before images of (undo)
or the after images of (redo) the selected changes.
Recovering the after image of a deletion, or the before image of a creation, deletes the current resource definition, if it exists.