Preparing and Maintaining VLS Libraries in CA Ideal › Restoring Deleted Entities

Restoring Deleted Entities

On occasion, a site might find itself in a situation where an entity was accidentally deleted from the CA Ideal environment. If the CA Ideal program, panel, report, sequential or VSAM dataview, or member exists in “external format” as a result of a Source Transport Utility EXPORT job, then you can recover the entity (both dictionary and VLS portions) using the IMPORT function of the CA Ideal Source Transport Utility. See the Working in the Environment Guide for more information. Otherwise, you can restore the entity if a VLS backup of the source is available. Each entity requires information from both the Datadictionary and the VLS library.

To restore an entity

1. Populate the dictionary with information regarding the entity. This can be done using either the CREATE, DUPLICATE, or the CA Ideal source transport utility. This process adds the information found in the Identification section and, in the case of programs, in the Resource section.
2. Restore the VLS library members using VLSUTIL.

Scenarios are provided below to assist in restoring your CA Ideal entities. The scenario you decide to use depends on the existence of other versions of the same entity in the system and what those versions are.