CICS DA configuration tool

CICS® DA supplies a configuration tool that you can use to quickly customize the sample jobs and create your CICS DA system. You can also edit existing CICS DA configuration files.

About this task

The CICS DA configuration tool guides you through the required variables and prompts you to enter specific details for your enterprise. When complete, the tool generates sample jobs based on the information that you supplied. Then, you can review the customized JCL and make any additional updates before you submit the jobs in sequence. For each of the configuration panels, you can press F1 to view the help for that ISPF panel.
Attention: By using the configuration tool, you can reduce the time to generate a CICS DA and avoid the manual configuration process.
The configuration tool generates the jobs to configure CICS DA as outlined in the following topics. Therefore, if you use the configuration tool, you do not have to manually complete these configuration steps.

The configuration tool generates the JCL for your CICS DA system, to authorize the CICS DA server ID, to configure the server properties file, and configure the CICS DA environment variables file.

Procedure

  1. Log on to TSO and enter one of the following commands to run the CICS DA configuration tool.
    To continue to use the same language in your TSO session, enter:
    EX CICS_DA_execLibrary(CPHCNFG1)
    Where CICS_DA_execLibrary is the SCPHEXEC data set that was created when you installed CICS DA.
    If you want to use a different language in the configuration tool, enter:
    EX CICS_DA_execLibrary(CPHCNFG1)language
    If you did not install CICS DA by using the default library names, if CICS_DA_execLibrary is not CICS_DA_installationLibrary.SCPHEXEC, enter:
    EX CICS_DA_execLibrary(CPHCNFG1)language CICS_DA_installationLibrary
  2. When you open the CICS DA configuration tool, you can select from one of the following options:
    1. Settings
    2. Create a DA configuration
    3. Edit an existing DA configuration
  3. Enter the relevant details for your enterprise.
  4. When you are finished, generate the customized sample jobs.
  5. Review the generated JCL and make any necessary modifications.
  6. Submit the jobs, in sequence, to create your CICS DA environment.

What to do next

Complete the remaining tasks to configure CICS DA. For more information, see the related tasks.


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