Specifying the control file table data set

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If you have correctly customized the CBKRCUST REXX EXEC, when you start the CICS BAC ISPF administration interface it displays its initial menu, entitled CICS BAC Primary Option Menu, which is illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 1. The CICS BAC ISPF administration interface Primary Option Menu
   File  Region  Preferences  Help                                             
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                         CICS BAC Primary Option Menu                          
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 1  Select a CICS region                                                       
                                                                               
 2  Select a control file table data set                                       
 3  Maintain the control file table data set list                              
                                                                               
 4  Maintain user default properties                                           
                                                                               
 5  Preferences                                                                
                                                                               
 X  Exit                                                                       
                                                                               
 Current control file data set . : NBELL.DOC.PARMS                             
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
  F1=Help    F2=Split   F3=Exit    F7=Up      F8=Down    F9=Swap   F12=Cancel  
You cannot select a CICS region from this menu until you have first selected the data set that contains a valid CICS BAC control file table member (CBKCFTBL); see The control file table for information about the control file table. You can specify the control file table data set in one of two ways:
  1. If have chosen to define the CICS BAC control file table as a member of a data set in the MVS logical parmlib concatenation, you can select the logical parmlib concatenation as location of the control file data set by first choosing option 2 Select a control file table data set and pressing ENTER. On the next panel displayed, select option 1 (MVS logical parmlib concatenation) and press ENTER to make the logical parmlib concatenation the current data set for the CICS BAC control file table for your TSO user ID.
  2. If you have chosen to create the CICS BAC control file table as a member of a partitioned data set that is not part of the MVS logical parmlib concatenation, identify the data set to the ISPF administration interface for your TSO user ID. There are two ways you can do this:
    1. By specifying a default control file table data set name on the CBKCFTDS parameter in the CICS BAC REXX EXEC parameters (see page CBKCFTDS=“table_dataset_name”). In this case, you go straight to option 2 in the menu and select the data set for use. Note that the use of the CBKCFTDS parameter is possible only if all CICS BAC TSO users use the same control file table data set name.
    2. Through the Primary Option Menu by selecting option 3 Maintain the control file table data set list on the CICS BAC ISPF administration interface Primary Option Menu, and press ENTER, then follow the instructions to identify the data set. Adding the data set causes it to be used automatically as the current CICS BAC control file table data set for your user ID.
    Note: The options a TSO user selects are unique to each user and the ISPF administration interface saves the information for each TSO user. For this reason, if CBKCFTDS is not used, each TSO user of the ISPF administration interface needs to perform step 2 at least once so that the relevant information can be saved for later use of the interface. The data is saved in a data set that has a name determined by the CBKSUMLQ parameter (see Customizing the REXX EXEC).

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