This book provides a general introduction to the CICSPlex® System
Manager (CICSPlex SM) element of CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS®, Version 3 Release 1.
- It describes, at a high level, how CICSPlex SM works, and introduces some new
concepts (see Introducing CICSPlex SM).
- It introduces the main functions and benefits of CICSPlex SM as a CICS system management
tool (see The CICSPlex SM environment).
- It explains how to approach the design of a CICSPlex SM configuration (Designing your CICSPlex SM environment).
- It describes how to start defining your CICSPlex SM environment (see Defining the CICSPlex SM configuration and topology).
- It describes how to plan for use of CICSPlex SM’s Business Application
Services, workload management, real-time analysis, and monitoring functions. See Managing resources using Business Application Services (BAS), Managing workloads, Exception reporting using real-time analysis (RTA), and Collecting statistics using CICSPlex SM monitoring, as appropriate.
- It describes how to prepare for the installation of CICSPlex SM (see Planning CICSPlex SM installation and setup).
- It describes the CICSPlex SM Starter Set (see The CICSPlex SM Starter Set).
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