Your CICS® environment probably consists of a large number of resource definitions, each
one with a myriad of attributes. The CICSPlex® SM batched repository-update facility can help you with the major
tasks of creating and maintaining resource definitions:
- Defining large numbers of resources
- The batched repository-update facility is ideal for creating and updating large numbers of resource definitions.
You can start with an input file that contains one CREATE command for one resource definition and
use that command as a template for other resource definitions. By copying and customizing
the CREATE command, you can quickly build all the resource definitions of a given type
that you need. Then, when you submit the batched repository-update facility input file, CICSPlex SM creates
all the resource definitions and adds them to the data repository.
- Migrating resource definitions
- The batched repository-update facility is an essential tool for migrating resource definitions from CICS to CICSPlex SM. CICSPlex SM provides
an exit routine that can extract records from an existing CSD file and generate
equivalent resource definitions for input to the batched repository-update facility. For more information about the
exit routine, see Extracting records from the CSD.
- Maintaining a centralized repository
- The batched repository-update facility is useful for migrating resource definitions from one CICS platform to
another, which is key to maintaining a centralized definition respository.
You can use the DUMP command to retrieve existing resource definitions from the CICSPlex SM data repository.
Then, after making any required changes to the definitions, you can use the
DUMP output as input to another batched repository-update facility run that creates resource definitions for the new
CICS platform.
For a complete description of the batched repository-update facility, see the CICSPlex SM Administration book.
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