Activating or quiescing a target region in an active workload

You can use CICS Explorer™ to activate or quiesce a target region in an active workload.

About this task

You might need to perform this task so that you can apply maintenance to a region, for example, or return a region to a workload after completing maintenance. This task describes how to activate or quiesce a target region using CICS Explorer.

Procedure

  1. In the CICSplex Explorer view expand the CICSplex tree to see the active workloads.
  2. Expand a workload tree and the associated Targets tree to view the target regions associated with the workload. Inactive regions are disabled.
  3. Right-click the target region that you want to activate or quiesce and click WLM > Activate or WLM > Quiesce.
  4. In the confirmation dialog click OK to activate or quiesce the region, or Cancel to cancel the operation.

Results

The selected target region is activated or quiesced.