This chapter describes the CICS BAC workstation administration client.
The workstation administration client is only one of three tools CICS BAC provides to enable you to perform CICS BAC administration tasks. You can choose to use the workstation client exclusively in your environment. Alternatively, you can use the workstation client in conjunction with either or both of the other two tools (the CICS BAC ISPF administration interface and the file maintenance utility) or you can decide not to use the client at all.
You use the workstation administration client to create and maintain information about files, programs, transactions, and TD queues in the VSAM KSDS control files. The client is a Windows-based application. During the CICS BAC installation process, a data set is created that contains the workstation administration client program modules. The DDNAME for the data set is SCBKDWLD. Before you can install the client, you must download the appropriate module for the language you choose to the workstation (using FTP or a similar download method) and perform the client installation process. For more information on the languages supported by the client, and a list of the client modules in the SCBKDWLD data set, see Appendix B. CICS BAC national language support (NLS). For more information about the client installation data set on the host, see the CICS BAC Program Directory. When you have downloaded the client module to the workstation, you can perform the client installation process. You can find instructions for installing, implementing, and using the client in the CICS BAC Workstation User's Guide and also in the online help feature integrated into the client.