Welcome to CICS BAC

Welcome to IBM® CICS® Batch Application Control for z/OS® (CICS BAC). CICS BAC is a flexible product that allows you to set up, customize, and apply parameters to be used to control the state of various CICS resources from a batch job step. In addition, CICS BAC tracks state changes for resources so that it can ensure the state of the resources is correct during a CICS region startup.

This guide describes the CICS BAC workstation administration client, which runs on any standard PC that meets the minimum system requirements. Using the workstation client, you can: