Terminology used in this sbook

This book refers to IBM® CICS® Configuration Manager for z/OS® as "CICS Configuration Manager".

Where this book refers to "resource definitions" with no further qualification, it is referring to CICS resource definitions that may be stored either in a CSD file or a CICSPlex® SM data repository, and also to CICSPlex SM-specific resource definitions that are stored only in a CICSPlex SM data repository (for example, ResDescs).

Where this book refers to a "context" with no further qualification, it is referring to a CICSPlex SM context in a CICSPlex SM data repository. For example, "context-based resource definition" refers to a resource definition stored in a CICSPlex SM data repository.

The instruction "Enter text" means "Type text, and then press the Enter key". The instruction "Type text" means "Type text, but do not press the Enter key".

Much of the terminology in this book is CICS terminology. See the glossary of the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Information Center:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r2/topic/com.ibm.cics.ts.doc/prod/glossary.html