Testing CA Disk after Installing › Testing the CA Disk Auto-Restore Feature › Forcing an Auto-Restore to be Initiated

Forcing an Auto-Restore to be Initiated

To force invocation of the catalog management support, you must first recatalog an archived data set to the CA Disk pseudo-volume. The easiest way to do this is to run an explicit CA Disk archive job with the parameter DISP=RECAT specified. This causes CA Disk to recatalog the data set after the scratch has taken place.

After you have the data set recataloged, you can invoke the support by either running a batch job that references the data set (such as IEBGENER), or by attempting to edit the data set from a TSO/ISPF environment. If you do this from an online environment, you are prompted by several messages:

• Do you want to restore the data set?
• Do you want an immediate or deferred restore?

  and, if an immediate restore is requested,

• Do you want to wait for the restore to complete?

Each of these questions is explained more thoroughly in the Customizing the TSO/ISPF Auto-Restore Environment section.