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Restore and Recover of VSAM Clusters

VSAM clusters are reorganized as they are restored or recovered (unless they were archived in control interval image copy format). Often, this eliminates multiple extents and CA/CI splits for the clusters involved. Catalog entries are dynamically recreated for each cluster with the attributes, as they existed, when the Archive/Backup was created (unless the cluster was predefined). CA Disk adjusts space allocations for the device type to which the clusters are recovered.

When recovering suballocated (non-unique) VSAM clusters to a "new" volume, you must predefine the VSAM space. After this space is created, CA Disk dynamically defines the VSAM clusters into it. CA Disk automatically defines the self-containing spaces for unique clusters. When restoring suballocated clusters that came from a VSAM catalog into an ICF catalog, the attribute is automatically changed to UNIQUE, regardless of its prior value.

The FILES contains the volume serial of the first data component of a VSAM cluster. During Archive/Backup processing, CA Disk issues a message that shows this volume serial. The volume serial must be correctly specified for a RECOVER run that uses the VOL= parameter. CA Disk can only RECOVER clusters if the first data component volume is correctly specified.