Tour summary
The tour consists of three sessions: each session is designed to be completed in a single sitting in under 20 minutes. Each successive session assumes that you have completed the previous session. Here is a summary of the tour:
- Session 1.
Editing resource definitions
- CICS Configuration Manager administrator onlyCICS Configuration Manager administrator only Create three copies of a small CSD file on your system, and define a CICS® configuration for each copy.
For the purposes of this tour, we will pretend that these CSD files contain the resource definitions for separate CICS environments: development, test, and production.
End of CICS Configuration Manager administrator only - Edit resource definitions in the development CICS configuration.
- View a report of the differences between the edited resource definitions in development, and the unedited versions in test and production.
- Session
2. Creating and migrating change packages
- CICS Configuration Manager administrator onlyCICS Configuration Manager administrator only Define two migration schemes: one for migrating change packages from development to test, and another for test to production.End of CICS Configuration Manager administrator only
- Create a change package containing new and edited resource definitions from the development environment.
- Migrate the change package from development to test, and then from test to production.
- Back out the change package from production.
- Session
3. Approving change packages
- Security administrator onlySecurity administrator only In your external security manager (this tour assumes that you are using RACF®, but you could use another SAF-enabled external security manager):
- Define general resource profiles that match the security keys sent by CICS Configuration Manager when a user attempts to approve or disapprove the migration of a change package.
- Define a group profile for each approver role; add the group profile to the access lists of the appropriate general resource profiles.
- Add at least one user to each of the group profiles.
End of Security administrator only - CICS Configuration Manager administrator onlyCICS Configuration Manager administrator only Activate the CICS Configuration Manager system options for security checking and approval checking.End of CICS Configuration Manager administrator only
- CICS Configuration Manager administrator onlyCICS Configuration Manager administrator only Activate approval processing for the migration scheme.End of CICS Configuration Manager administrator only
- CICS Configuration Manager administrator onlyCICS Configuration Manager administrator only Define an approval profile that requires migrations from development to test to be approved by three users: a project manager, a member of the quality assurance team, and an application developer.End of CICS Configuration Manager administrator only
- Update the change package to refer to the approval profile.
- Get users to approve the change package.
- Migrate the approved change package.