Administering your CICSPlex SM environment

After you have configured your CICSPlex® SM environment, you can use CICS Explorer® or the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface to manage the environment. Both provide views to work with the CICSplexes that you have defined. CICS® also provides batch tools to manage the definitions in the data repository.

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To access CICSPlex SM administration views from the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface main menu, click Administration views.

Administration views are divided into the following:
  • General views, which include views to manage CICSPlex configuration and topology
  • Real time analysis views, which include views to monitor system availability and MAS resources
  • CICS resource definitions using Business Application Services (BAS), which includes views to manage all types of CICS and CICSPlex SM resources.

There are several common types of actions (see Table 1) that you can use with the administration views. All of these actions affect the contents of the data repository and the changes are applied immediately. However most of these changes to the data repository have no effect, on CICS systems that are currently active. These changes affect a CICS system the next time the CICS system is restarted.

To use an action button from an open view:
  1. Optionally, select the record or records on which you intend to apply the action by selecting one or more record check boxes on the left of the work area, or by using the Select all button.
  2. Click the required action button. This displays one or a succession of confirmation panels. The confirmation panel allows you to confirm or cancel the action for each selected resource, and in some cases contain additional options.
  3. Complete each confirmation panel by selecting the required button or in some cases by entering parameters, selecting check boxes or selecting radio buttons.

The action is processed and the view is redisplayed showing the results of the action. If the action competed successfully, message EYUVC1230I is displayed in the message area at the top of the work area. If the action is not successful, one or more error messages are displayed.

Note:
  1. When you use the Time period definitions (EYUSTARTPERIODEF) view to update definitions, the changes affect both the data repository and currently active CICS systems.
  2. Changes to a currently running MAS are not included in the data repository.
  3. All of these actions can also be performed using the batched repository-update facility described in The batched repository-update facility (BATCHREP).
Table 1. Common actions available with Administration views
Action Description
Create Creates a new definition and adds it to the data repository. An administration definition name can be 1 to 8 characters in length. The name can contain alphabetic, numeric, or national characters. However, the first character must be alphabetic.
Add to ... Adds an association between two definitions. The resulting confirmation panel prompts you to identify the other definition with which you want to create an association. Adding an association creates a relationship between the definitions in the data repository. Associations can be added between definitions and groups, between groups and specifications, and between specifications and CICS systems.
Map To display a visual map of related definitions in the data repository, click Map.
Remove Removes a definition or an association between two definitions from the data repository.
Update Updates a definition in the data repository. The resulting panel is an editable detail view of a selected resource.