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Details CICS's core recovery and restart mechanisms, including data integrity and failure minimization.
Explains the fundamental concept of a unit of work (UOW) in CICS backout mechanisms.
Details how CICS manages locks for recoverable resources and their states (active/retained).
Describes how CICS indicates the end of a UOW and the role of syncpoints in recovery.
Describes the stages of a normal CICS shutdown, including quiesce stages and warm keypoints.
Explains the warm keypoint information used for warm or emergency restarts.
Explains the CICS startup process for a cold start, including data set and resource recovery.
Details the CICS startup process for a warm restart, focusing on state rebuilding.
Covers CICS startup after a failure, including system log recovery and backout.
Explains how CICS utilizes the MVS Automatic Restart Management (ARM) component.
Details how CICS handles unit of work failures, abends, and recovery processes.
Covers processing for terminal errors and intersystem communication failures.
Focuses on planning considerations for CICS recovery, including application design and requirements.
Explains the definition and management of system and general log streams for CICS logging.
Details how to define recovery attributes for CICS-managed resources like transactions and files.
Covers programming techniques to include recovery facilities in CICS applications.
Details the CICS-supplied PEP's functions and limitations for abend handling.
Guides the creation and implementation of custom Program Error Programs.
Describes the process of quiescing RLS data sets for access management.
Explains the RLS quiesce/unquiesce functions and their impact on data set access.
Details switching data sets from RLS to non-RLS mode for batch operations.
Provides steps to resolve retained locks prior to opening data sets in non-RLS mode.
Discusses trade-offs between data availability and integrity during lock resolution.
Outlines procedures for moving VSAM data sets, ensuring retained locks are preserved.
Explains the REPRO utility for moving VSAM data sets and preserving locks.
Describes using EXPORT/IMPORT for moving VSAM data sets.
Covers rebuilding alternate indexes and preserving locks.
Covers preserving retained locks during RLS mode data set forward recovery.
Provides procedures for forward recovery of non-RLS mode data sets.
Details steps to resolve failures during RLS mode forward recovery.
Outlines procedures for resolving failures in non-RLS mode forward recovery.
Compares BWO dump types and the role of concurrent copy.
Lists the necessary components and configuration for BWO support.
Identifies eligible data sets for BWO based on storage and access modes.
Describes methods for defining BWO eligibility for data sets.
Details specifying BWO via DEFINE CLUSTER statements.
Explains defining BWO eligibility through CICS FILE resource definitions.
Provides procedures for removing BWO attributes from data sets.
Outlines administrator tasks for BWO and forward recovery.
Details how BWO impacts CICS operations like file opening and shutdown.
Explains the necessity of a disaster recovery plan for business continuity.
Highlights the importance and benefits of regularly testing disaster recovery plans.
Presents a tiered approach to off-site recovery solutions based on business needs.
Discusses tier 6 solutions for high availability and data currency.
Provides legal notices, warranties, and copyright information.
Lists IBM and other product trademarks.
Lists CICS books and related publications for further reading.
Details accessibility features for CICS system interaction.
An alphabetical index of topics for quick reference.
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