Customizing a service instance

Setting up a service instance usually requires some decisions on service-specific options that you must supply as customization data. Services that can be set up with msys for Setup gather this information in service-specific customization dialogs. The customization dialogs often provide wizards and best practice defaults, and they always provide help information to assist you in providing the customization data.

Some services cannot be customized themselves with msys for Setup but offer functions to take care of dependencies by services that can be customized. See the service information file to find out more about an individual service.

Before you begin:

Steps for displaying a customization dialog:

  1. In the resource tree, expand the sysplexes folder and the folder for the sysplex you want to work with.
  2. If you want to work with sysplex-wide services, click the control panel in the sysplex folder, otherwise expand the folder for the system you want to work with and click the control panel in the system folder. A list of available service instances is displayed in the list view.
  3. Select the service instance you want to customize.
  4. Click File --> Customize... on the menu. If you are customizing this service instance for the first time, and the service supports the copy function, and suitable customization data of another instance is available, a confirmation message asks if you want to copy data from an existing customization.
    Note:
    This menu item is only present if you are authorized for the service.

  5. If you are not logged on to the system you might be prompted to log on now.

    If the service you want to customize has dependencies on the configuration data of other services you are prompted to do the refresh now (see Refreshing the management directory), unless refresh has already been done for them. When all required refresh data is available, the service's customization dialog is downloaded and displayed.


  6. Use the helps of the dialog for details on the required customization data.