Configure the ISPF interface to create batch jobs

You can run CICSĀ® Configuration Manager from the ISPF interface entirely in interactive mode. However, when you process a change package (for example, to migrate resource definitions), your terminal will not respond until that process is complete. This may take some time, depending on the complexity of the process and the number of resource definitions involved. Alternatively, you can instruct the ISPF interface to create a batch job to process change packages. You can submit the batch job, and then continue using the ISPF interface uninterrupted.

Before using the ISPF interface to create batch jobs, you need to define the job statement information and stepped library concatenation that you want to use:

  1. Start the CICS Configuration Manager ISPF dialog.
  2. Select primary menu option 0 Settings.
  3. Enter job statement information for CICS Configuration Manager batch jobs.
  4. On separate STEPLIB lines, enter the fully-qualified data set names (without enclosing quotes) of the library that contains the national language support load modules, and the library that contains the batch client interface program CCVBMAIN:
    ccvhlq.SCCVAlang
    ccvhlq.SCCVAUTH

    If you connect to the CICS Configuration Manager server via an authenticated port, then both of these libraries must be APF-authorized. For details, see Optional: Enable PassTicket processing.

You can perform some CICS Configuration Manager commands entirely in batch, without using the ISPF dialog, by writing and submitting your own job control language (JCL). For details, see Overview of the batch interface.