Production and test groups

Another use of the CICS® VR XCF group name suffix might be to logically group the CICS VR instances into production and test groups.

For example, all CICS VR instances in a sysplex that update production data could have the same CICS VR XCF group name suffix defined, for example, PROD. Then, you can create one or more CICS VR instances for testing purposes only. The CICS VR testing instances could be assigned a different CICS VR XCF group name suffix, for example, TEST.

You could then assign separate levels of the CICS VR libraries to each CICS VR XCF group. This you would then allow you to change or update the CICS VR load libraries assigned to the test group without affection production activity. For example, you could apply and test an APAR on the CICS VR load libraries assigned to the test group prior to applying it to the CICS VR load libraries assigned to the production group.


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