A major part of your planning effort involves looking at the software and hardware required for the system that you are installing.
Whether you choose the CBPDO method or the ServerPac method, the hardware requirement is the same.
Hardware requirements are more fully described in the CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® Release Guide
You need a hardware configuration that runs the required levels of MVS™, provided the configuration has a terminal and a tape device capable of reading one of the following types of tape on which CICS TS is supplied:
The system software requirements for installing CICS TS using the ServerPac method or the CBPDO method is the same except for the addition of SMP/E for CBPDO.
Software requirements are more fully described in the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Release Guide
The products shown in Table 3 must be installed on the system you use to install both the ServerPac and the CBPDO.
Program Product | Minimum Level |
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z/OS (5694-A01) | Version 1 Release 4.
z/OS includes the following elements that are required for installing CICS TS:
If you are installing CICS TS using the CBPDO method, you also need:
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Some components of CICS TS are installed in PDSE data sets and HFS files. CICS TS for z/OS, Version 3.1 requires PDSE data set support for installation to complete successfully. DFSMS/MVS, which is supplied as an element of z/OS, provides this support for PDSE data sets. The components concerned are part of the CICS support for Java™ programs and for IIOP inbound to Java applications. For FMID JCI640D, which contains the HFS-dependent code, the OMVS address space must be active in full-function mode, otherwise the install of this function fails.
In the set of installation jobs, there are some new initial jobs to create the HFS files and the directories shown in Figure 2. You run these jobs before any of the normal DFHINSTn jobs. Note that the user ID running these jobs requires superuser authority.