Notes on terminology

In the text of this book, the term CICSPlex® SM (spelled with an uppercase letter ‘P’) means the IBM® CICSPlex System Manager element of CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS®, Version 3 Release 1. The term CICSplex (spelled with a lowercase letter ‘p’) means the largest set of CICS systems to be managed by CICSPlex SM as a single entity.

Other terms used in this book are:

BTS-set
A set of CICS regions within a CICSplex across which related CICS business transaction services (BTS) processes and activities may execute.
CICS
The CICS element of CICS TS for z/OS
Start of changeEUIEnd of change
Start of changeThe MVS/TSO ISPF end user interface component of CICSPlex SM.End of change
CICSPlex SM
The CICSPlex SM element of CICS TS for z/OS
MVS™
The operating system which is a base element of z/OS.
Requesting region
A CICS region that initiates a dynamic routing function.
Routing region
A CICS region that routes the request for a dynamic routing function.
Target region
A CICS region that receives and executes a dynamic routing function.
Start of changeWUIEnd of change
Start of changeThe Web User Interface component of CICSPlex SM.End of change

The phrase issue the command is used in this book to mean that a command may be either typed in the COMMAND field of an Information Display panel or invoked by pressing the PF key to which it is assigned. When the location of the cursor affects command processing, this phrase also means that you can do one of the following:

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