The release level of CICS Transaction Server that runs the CICS Configuration Manager server must be the same as or later than the release levels of CICS Transaction Server that manage the CSD files or the CICSPlex® SM data repositories you want to use with CICS Configuration Manager. If your system uses CICSPlex SM, then the release level of CICS Transaction Server that runs the CICS Configuration Manager server must be the same as the release level of CICS Transaction Server that runs the local CMAS. For an illustration of these requirements, see Figure 1.
The steps that follow do not describe how to create and configure a CICS region; it is assumed that you already know how to do this.
Recommendations:
Create a dedicated CICS region for the CICS Configuration Manager server.
If you choose not to use a dedicated CICS region, then use a CICS region that does not run any user applications. This allows you to isolate the resource definitions and system initialization parameters required by CICS Configuration Manager from your user applications, avoiding potential conflicts.
If your system uses CICSPlex SM, then you may wish to consider using the CICS region that runs the CICSPlex SM Web UI server. The Web UI server and the CICS Configuration Manager server both require CICS Web support; you can use the existing CICS Web support in that region for the CICS Configuration Manager server. For an illustration of this concept, see Figure 1.
In particular, ensure that the CEE group in the CICS region is current and complete. The CICS Configuration Manager server is a Language Environment application that uses the Assembler, PL/I, COBOL, and C languages. CICS defines the Language Environment via group CEE, a sample of which is provided in the CEE.SCEESAMP data set. It is essential that the CEE group is both current and complete in the CICS Configuration Manager server region. (CEE is the default name for this group. Your site may use a different name.)
This confirms that the CICS region starts successfully before configuring it for CICS Configuration Manager.
For more information about specifying Language Environment runtime options, see the Language Environment documentation.