Optional: Configure the agent for CSD-based CICS regions
The CICS® Configuration Manager agent is required only if you want to use CICS Configuration Manager to perform the following actions on active CSD-based CICS regions:
- Installation-type actions, such as install, discard, and newcopy of resource definitions
- Collection of runtime resource definitions for deployment analysis reporting
This agent is not required for performing actions on CICS regions managed by CICSPlex® SM.
The procedure to configure the agent uses the following terms:
- Local region
- Refers to the CICS region running the CICS Configuration Manager server.
- Remote regions
- Refers to the CSD-based CICS regions on which you want to perform actions.
Before following the step-by-step procedure, please read the summary so that you understand what the procedure involves (such as restarting CICS regions).
What you should already know: CICS intercommunication
The configuration procedure assumes that you understand CICS intercommunication. Specifically, you should know how to create multiregion operation (MRO) or intersystem communication (ISC) links between CICS regions. If you do not know how to do this, before proceeding, see the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®: CICS Intercommunication Guide.