This section primarily documents intended Programming Interface that allow the customer to write programs to obtain the notify service of CICS® VR.
The CICS VSAM Recovery file copy notification service allows for CICS VR to be notified when a logical backup is created or deleted for a VSAM data set by an IBM® or non-IBM product. The CICS VR file copy notification service resides in data set SDWWCSSL. The file copy notification service can be started from a backup product or a separate user program that issues the CALL DWWCVRN statement, accompanied by a list of required and optional arguments and storage areas. The CICS VR file copy notification service is provided as part of IBM CICS VSAM Recovery and only supports backup products that run on MVS™, that is, are not multi-platform.
See Understanding CICS VR backup support for further examples of using the CICS VR file copy notification service to register backups with CICS VR.