Deploying a policy in a CICS bundle project

After you finish creating a policy in a CICS® bundle project, you can deploy it by using CICS Explorer®.

Before you begin

Before deploying a policy, make sure you have created a policy in a CICS bundle project.

About this task

Policies that define system rules can be deployed either to a single CICS region or with a CICS platform, but they cannot be deployed with a CICS application. Policies that define task rules can be deployed to a single CICS region, with a CICS platform, or with a CICS application. The following table shows policy scopes that are applicable to different rule types.
Table 1. Policy scope for different rule types
Policy scope Task rules System rules

Region level
(deployed into a CICS region)

Yes.  1 

Rules apply to all user tasks running in the specified region.

Yes.

Rules apply to all tasks (system or user) in the specified region that make changes to system or resource state.

Platform level
(deployed with a CICS platform)

Yes.

Rules apply to all user tasks for any CICS application that is deployed on the specified platform.

Yes.

Rules apply to all tasks (system or user) in all regions of the specified platform that make changes to system or resource state.

Application level
(deployed with a CICS application)

Yes.  1 

Rules apply only to the users tasks for the specified application and not to other user tasks that might run on the same platform.

NA.

Policies that define system rules cannot be deployed at the application level.

Procedure

Deploy the policy by using one of the following methods:

Results

You have deployed a CICS bundle project that contains your policy.