The
Workload Manager is designed to handle various problems when the
Client daemon is
used to connect with one or more
CICS® servers (
CICS regions):
- How to get round the restriction on the number of clients that a single CICS
server can accommodate on a particular port.
- How to distribute work across available, equivalent CICS regions.
- How to favor one region over another (biasing).
- How to handle requests that fail to reach a target CICS region.
The Workload Manager resolves these problems and others by dynamically selecting
target regions and ports based upon criteria that you configure. It ensures
that all calls in an extended Logical Unit of Work (LUW) are routed to the
same CICS server.