Collecting and checking candidate resource definitions

When collecting candidates, CICS® Configuration Manager uses the same rules as CICS when selecting which resource definitions to install after a cold start:

CICS Configuration Manager performs various checks to verify whether candidates will actually be installed, and includes the results of these checks in the deployment analysis report. These checks include:

Duplicate checks
When collecting a set of candidate resource definitions from a CSD file, or a combination of CSD file and CICSPlex SM data repository, the deployment analysis reports notify you of any duplicate resource definitions in the set, including which duplicate, if any, CICS would install, and why the others would be not installed.
Referential integrity checks
In some cases, CICS installs a resource definition only if another required resource definition has already been installed. For example, before installing DB2® entries you must install a DB2 connection. The deployment analysis reports include error messages to notify you of cases where a resource definition would not be installed because it requires a resource definition that is not yet installed.

In other cases, CICS installs a resource definition even if it requires a resource definition that has not yet been installed. For example, CICS will install a transaction even if the program to which it refers has not yet been installed (the program might be autoinstalled on-demand). The deployment analysis reports include warning messages to notify you of cases where a resource definition would be installed even though it requires a resource definition that is not yet installed.

When collecting candidate resource definitions from a CSD file, you must specify the system ID (SYSID) of the CICS region where, for the purposes of deployment analysis reporting, the candidate resource definitions would be installed. This enables the report to handle any candidate resource definitions that specify remote system (REMOTESYSTEM) attribute values:

Whether the report interprets a resource definition as local or remote is especially significant for comparison reports, which notify you when a resource definition has been installed locally in one set of resource definitions, but as a remote resource definition in the other set.


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