Preparing and Maintaining VLS Libraries in CA Ideal › Library Maintenance Under z/OS or VSE › Routine CA Ideal System BACKUP and RESTORE

Routine CA Ideal System BACKUP and RESTORE

CA Ideal maintains information about various entities in both the dictionary and in the various CA Ideal VLS files. This information is synchronized through internal date and time stamps. Therefore, CA Ideal VLS files cannot, in general, be treated as independent from the entire CA Ideal system or from the dictionary. You should schedule routine backups of the entire system.

This should be a job that includes the BACKUP function of DBUTLTY for each dictionary file (see the CA Datacom/DB z/OS Utility Reference for a description and sample JCL), and one VLSUTIL BACKUP step for each of the following CA IPC and CA Ideal VLS files:

• ADRLIB
• ADROUT
• ADRPNL
• IDDAT
• IDDVW

z/OS

• IDxxxSRC (one for each separate source file)
• IDxxxPNL (one for each separate panel file)
• IDxxxOBJ (one for each separate object file)

VSE

• IDLxxxS (one for each separate source file)
• IDLxxxP (one for each separate panel file)
• IDLxxxO (one for each separate object file)

CA Ideal generation includes the installation of a JCL stream to backup all CA Ideal files. Tailor this JCL to your site standards and add it to your current dictionary backup job.

It is essential that you run the BACKUP function of DBUTLTY and CA Ideal VLSUTIL steps at the same point (preferably as steps in one job) and that CA Ideal be completely quiesced (including batch CA Ideal runs) before and during the backup.