Deployment analysis

You can run deployment analysis against CICSPlex SM or CICS resources with the CICS® CM plug-in.

You can run different forms of deployment analysis reports.
  • Cold start compare. Compares a set of runtime resource definitions installed in an active CICS region with a set of candidate resource definitions stored in a CSD file, a CICSPlex SM data repository, or a combination of the two.
  • Candidates compare. Compares two sets of candidate resource definitions stored in a CSD file, a CICSPlex SM data repository, or a combination of the two.
  • Runtime resource compare. Compares two sets of runtime resource definitions installed in two active CICS regions.
  • Runtime resources. Lists a set of runtime resource definitions installed in an active CICS region.
  • Candidates. Lists a set of candidate resource definitions stored in a CSD file, a CICSPlex SM data repository, or a combination of the two.
  • Check. Lists referential integrity issues in a set of candidate resource definitions stored in a CSD file, a CICSPlex SM data repository, or a combination of the two.

Installed resource definitions are known as runtime resource definitions. Resource definitions that can potentially be installed when CICS does a cold start are known as candidate resource definitions. Candidates are not automatically installed during a cold start; they can be rejected, for example, due to integrity issues or non-winning duplicates.

See Deployment analysis of resource definitions in CICS Configuration Manager product information.

For the steps in creating a deployment analysis report, see Creating a deployment analysis report