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Reviewing or Canceling Your Restore Requests

Enter 3 on the command line of the Novice User Main Menu or 5 on the command line of the Expert User Main Menu to select the Review your restore requests option. CA VM:Backup displays the following Review Restore Requests for Userid screen.

   RREQEBC1          Review Restore Requests For Userid: TESTUSR      VM:Backup    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------    You can cancel a restore request any time before the job starts running.    To cancel a request, type CANcel on that line and press ENTER.                                                           Time     Command   Restore From/To                            Started   Job Status               VMVSE:TESTUSE to TESTUSR 111               16:18:40  running     -----------------------------------------------------------------------------    PF:  1  Help      2  Refresh  3  End       4  Return     5  ...        6  ...     PF:  7  Backward  8  Forward  9  ...     10  ...      11  Print    12  Cursor    ===> 

The Review Restore Requests for Userid screen lists your requests in the order you submitted them and provides this information:

Restore From/To

This column identifies what is being restored, as follows:

Type of data

If restore request is for ...

CA VM:Backup displays ...

Minidisk

Single file

File name

More than one file

Number of files submitted in the request

Entire minidisk

User ID and virtual address

CKD data

Cylinders and Tracks (cyl/trk)

FBA data

Blocks (blk)

Recomputed minidisk

Recomped

SFS

Single file

File name

More than one file

Number of files submitted in the request

SFS directory

Name of file space and directory

BFS

Single file

Last 14 characters of the file name component enclosed in single quotes. If the name is longer than 14 characters, CA VM:Backup precedes the name with an ellipsis to show that part of the name is not being displayed

More than one file

Number of BFS files submitted in the request

BFS directory

First 14 characters of the bfsid (filepool:filespace). If the bfsid is shorter than 14 characters, CA VM:Backup displays as much of the last part of the directory name as will fit in the remaining space. When it cannot show the whole directory name, CA VM:Backup displays an ellipsis to indicate where part of the name is not displayed.

Note: Restoring a BFS directory requires SYSADMIN authorization.

This column also shows the destination of the restored data, as follows:

Type of data

If restoring data to ...

CA VM:Backup displays ...

Minidisk

Virtual reader

User ID followed by RDR

Minidisk

User ID and virtual address

SFS directory

Name of file space and directory

SFS

Virtual reader

User ID followed by RDR

Minidisk

User ID and virtual address

SFS directory

Name of file space and directory

BFS

BFS directory

First 14 characters of the bfsid (filepool: filespace). If the bfsid is shorter than 14 characters, CA VM:Backup displays as much of the last part of the directory name as will fit in the remaining space. When it cannot show the whole directory name, CA VM:Backup displays an ellipsis to indicate where part of the name is not displayed.

Time Started

This column displays the time CA VM:Backup began processing the request.

Job Status

This column indicates the job's status, as follows:

Status

Definition

Ended

CA VM:Backup has completed processing your request.

On hold

CA VM:Backup is not currently processing your request. An operator must release your request so that CA VM:Backup can process it.

Released

Your request has been released from On hold status and will be processed when CA VM:Backup is available.

Restarted

CA VM:Backup has restarted your request.

Running

CA VM:Backup is currently processing this request.

Waiting

CA VM:Backup is currently processing other requests. Your request will be processed when CA VM:Backup is available.

CA VM:Backup automatically updates the information on this screen every 10 seconds. To remove outdated information, press PF2 (Refresh).