Creating a new resource object

Once you have defined a new CICS® region folder, you can start defining individual resource objects. The following procedure shows how to create a new file object, but it works the same way for TDQueue objects, transID objects, or program objects. However, for transID and program objects, all property fields and information fields are shown on a single pane instead of a pane with multiple tabs. Also, not all properties are available for all resource types.

  1. Click on the Files folder in the tree pane to view any existing file objects.

Notice the $Default object name in the view pane. This object contains the default settings for all file objects in this region, which were derived from the overall default settings for file objects in the Default Properties folder at the time the CICS region folder was created. You now have two options: