Before you can perform actions on CICSĀ® regions whose resource definitions are
stored in CSD files, you need to:
- Install the CICS Configuration
Manager agent in those regions.
- Define a CICS inter-system communications (ISC) link or a CICS multiregion
operations (MRO) link between each of those regions (the "remote regions") and the region that is running the CICS Configuration
Manager server (the "local region)".
- Edit the CICS configurations for the remote region CSD files, and add the names
of these links as remote system connections.
For details on these steps, see Optional: Configure the agent for CSD-based CICS regions.
When you instruct CICS Configuration
Manager to perform an action on a CSD-based resource
definition, the server uses the remote system connections to call its agent
in the target CICS regions. You can instruct the server to use all or
only some of the remote system connections.
Figure 1. Using remote system connections and
the CICS Configuration
Manager agent to perform actions on active CSD-based CICS regions