How to use this book

for planning

Read through the sections of this book that tell you about:

Once you have identified the actions you need to take to complete your migration, write a plan describing the steps your installation will take. Include your estimate of how much time each step requires and who will do it.

for installation

CICS and CICSPlex® SM are available only as elements of the CICS Transaction Server, through either the ServerPac or CBPDO method of delivery. For information about these two methods of delivery of the CICS Transaction Server, see Installing CICS TS.

To install the CICS Transaction Server using the CBPDO method, you should use the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® Program Directory, together with the instructions contained in the Memo to Users Extension, to load the software from the tape DASD. For the ServerPac method, you follow the supplied set of ISPF dialogs and the accompanying documentation.

After you have loaded the CICS Transaction Server elements to DASD, you should then use this book to tailor CICS to your environment; that is to:

Notes:
  1. Appendix. CICS modules eligible for the MVS link pack area gives details of the CICS modules that are needed in, and eligible for, the MVS link pack area.
  2. If you installed CICS from CBPDO, you do not need to run the DFHISTAR job again to specify the post-installation parameters. However, if you wish to create several copies of the post-installation jobs (for example to create several copies of the DFHDEFDS job to define CICS data sets unique to several CICS regions), you can edit and run the DFHISTAR job as many times as required.

Some of the information in this book is also of interest if you have installed CICS Transaction Server using the ServerPac method of delivery.

In particular, you should edit and run the DFHISTAR job, specifying the keyword POST, to define parameters needed to tailor your CICS environment.

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