Space announcement We are no longer updating this space, and you cannot comment on this space. The RECOVERY PLUS for IMS component is now documented in BMC AMI Backup and Recovery for IMS.

Deleting and redefining VSAM OSAM data sets


When performing a recovery, you can delete and redefine a VSAM data set and delete and allocate an OSAM data set. Use the IDCAMS keyword to invoke IDCAMS directly, without running a separate job step.

Unlike the IMS recovery utility, the BMC Recovery utility can recover to a non-empty VSAM data set that was defined with the REUSE attribute. Rebuilding secondary indexes does, however, require that VSAM data sets be empty.

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