Controlling resources by resource assignment

Resource assignments are a departure from the basic CICSPlex® SM object model of definitions, groups, and descriptions (or specifications). They add a significant degree of flexibility and control to the resource definition process. And they increase the precision with which you can manage the resources in your CICSplex.

Once you have gathered resource definitions into resource groups, you can use resource assignments to:

To take full advantage of Business Application Services, you should associate your resource groups with resource assignments and your assignments with a resource description. To do this, you would:

  1. Create resource groups and add resource definitions to them.
  2. Create one resource assignment for each type of resource you want to manage.

    Start of changeUse the Resource group name, Target scope name and Related scope name fields (WUI) or ResGroup, Target, and Related fields (EUI) on each resource assignment to identify resource groups and the CICS systems to which they should be assigned.End of change

    You can also use a filter string expression to select resources from a group and an override string expression to modify specific resource attributes.

  3. Create a resource description (or identify an existing one) that you want to associate the resource assignments with.

    In this approach, the resource description is really a means of grouping the resource assignments for various resources into a meaningful set, such as an application. The selection and assignment of resources are ultimately controlled by the resource assignments.

  4. Start of changeUse the Add to resource description button from the Resource assignment definition view (WUI) or the ADD action command from the RASGNDEF view (EUI) to associate the resource assignments with the resource description. This creates a resource assignment-in-description link record (RASINDSC).

    Note that the same resource assignment can be associated with more than one resource description, just as the same resources are generally used by more than one application.

    End of change

Depending on the resource assignment values, some or all of the resources in the resource groups may be assigned as local or remote resources in multiple CICS systems.

Related concepts
Resource assignments
Resource definition sets
Controlling resources by resource description
Using logical scopes to control application resources
Identifying remote resources to CICSPlex SM
Accessing BAS administration views using the EUI
Common EUI administration actions
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