Business Application Services is the component of CICSPlex® SM that is responsible for managing the CICS® resource definition and installation process for business applications
at your enterprise.
Business Application Services provides the following facilities:
- Centralized resource definition
- With BAS, you can implement CEDA-like resource definition and association
across the entire CICSplex. The CICSPlex SM data repository (EYUDREP) can serve as the central
repository for CICS resource definitions. CICSPlex SM minimizes the number of resource definitions you need
for your CICSplex by:
- Providing a single-system image approach
to defining CICS resources on the OS/390 and z/OS.
- Producing both local and remote instances of a resource from the attributes
of a single definition.
- Managing multiple versions of a definition (for example, as it progresses
from testing to production).
- Generating multiple CICS communication links from a single set of connection
and session definitions.
- Logical scoping
- Once your CICS resources are defined to CICSPlex SM, you can monitor and
control those resources in terms of their participation in a named business
application, rather than their physical location in the CICSplex. Logically related
resources can be identified and referred to as a set, regardless of where
they actually reside at any given time.
- Distributed resource installation
- Resources that are defined to CICSPlex SM must still be installed in the
appropriate systems, either by CICS or CICSPlex SM. You can use BAS to install
your resources either automatically, at CICS initialization, or dynamically,
while a system is running. A single resource can be installed in multiple CICS systems
either locally or remotely, as appropriate.
Business Application Services supports the following CICS resources:
- Application resources
- These are the resources that support the business applications at your
enterprise. They are the resources that an application requires to run:
- CorbaServers
- CICS BTS process types
- DB2® connections and transactions
- Deployed JAR files
- Document templates
- FEPI nodes, pools, property sets and targets
- Files and key file segment definitions
- IIOP request models
- Map sets
- Partition sets
- Programs
- Sysplex enqueue models
- TCP/IP services
- Temporary storage models
- Transactions
- Transient data queues
- Region property resources
- These are the global resources that support the running of a CICS system:
- Journals
- Journal models (CICS TS for OS/390 only)
- Local shared resource (LSR) pools
- Profiles
- Transaction classes
- Terminals
- Typeterms
- Connectivity resources
- These are the resources that support the construction of intersystem communication (ISC) and interregion communication (IRC) links
between CICS systems:
- Connections
- Partners
- Sessions
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