Searching for policy rules

A CICS® policy is an XML definition that describes the controls or actions that can be applied to one or more applications that are deployed on a platform. Policies can be applied to applications, operations, platforms, regions, or region types. You can search for policy rules to determine the set of policy rules that apply to a given scope.

About this task

CICS supports two types of policy rules: system rules and task rules. With the policy search function in the Cloud Explorer view, you can search for rules against a deployment scope: operation, application, platform, region type, or region. RACF® security checking does not apply to policy search operations.

Procedure

  1. In the Cloud Explorer view, right-click the application, operation, platform, region type, or region that you want to search.
  2. Click Search.
  3. Click the resulting option, which corresponds to the scope you want to search. Possible options include:
    • Policy rules for application
    • Policy rules for operation
    • Policy rules for platform
    • Policy rules for region type
    • Policy rules for region only

Results

The results of the search are displayed in the Search view. The rules are categorized as either system or task rules. Within each category, the rules are further categorized by rule type. Based on the rule type, the following information is displayed:
System rules
The policy name, rule name, and action. For the event action, the name of the event processing (EP) adapter or EP adapter set is also displayed.
Task rules
The policy name, rule name, action, and threshold details are displayed. For the event action, the name of the event processing (EP) adapter or EP adapter set is also displayed. For the abend action, the abend code is displayed.
As multiple policy scopes can apply at run time, the search might return more rules than you expect. For more information about policy scopes, see Policy scopes.