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Hi Group,

During the back up I see some Cluster are open during Backup. To close the CLUSTER i use the VERIFY command and after that the Cluster gets closed properly. Are there any way where i can close all the CLUSTERS which were not closed properly and run the back up successfully.

As part of backup we find almost 400-500 Clusters in Open status and due to which Logical Back up is not really successful. Most of the cases are due to Improper Closure of VSAM cluster.

Regards,
Jaggz

Clusters open to a CICS region? Clusters used for batch only? if CICS is the region up? if so are there any procedures / processes to close files prior to backup? if not and the numbers you are describing are in the hundreds I'd suggest looking into BATCH/CEMT to close the files prior to backup, of not open to CICS, then was there a batch job / process running at the time? still running during backup? failed prior to backup......?
Peter

Hi,

It was a user's logical back up. The user didnt logged into the system for a long time(Almost 20 days). There wasn't any batch jobs too but the CICS region was up and running during the back up.

Regards,
Jaggz