Creating a CICSplex management facility

A CICSplex management facility is a pair of linked CICS® regions: A CMAS and a Web User Interface (WUI) server. CICSPlex® SM uses the management facility to manage your CICS systems. You can use CICS DA to create a management facility from templates that are supplied with the product. The templates are tailored for your organization during the installation of the CICS DA server.

About this task

This task creates a management facility from the supplied templates. You must have loaded a system model and have an active connection before you can create a management facility.

Procedure

  1. Open the Create a management facility wizard by choosing one of the following options:
    • In the DA Explorer view, right-click the connection name and click New > CICSplex management facility.
    • Click the New icon The New icon. Expand the CICS Deployment Assistant tree and click CICSplex management facility.
    The Create a CICSplex management facility wizard is displayed. If you have an active CICS DA connection, the wizard selects that connection. You can choose a different connection from the DA Connection list. If you do not have an active connection, CICS DA selects the first connection name in the list and displays the Signon window.
    A screen capture of the Create a CICSplex management facility wizard.
  2. Select the template that you want to use from the Template list and complete the other fields.
  3. If you want CICS DA to start the new management facility regions when they are created, select the Start regions check box. Click Finish.

What to do next

The management facility regions are created and added to the model. If Start regions is selected, the management facility regions start. The CMAS and the CICSPlex SM server editors open showing the region details.