In a CICS® CSD file,
groups provide a method of collecting related resources together,
while lists contain a list of groups that CICS installs at an initial or cold start. Using
the CICS Explorer™ with
a CICS TS V4 or later system,
you can view groups, lists, and their contents, in an individual CICS CSD file.
Each CICS region
has its own, or a shared CSD file. Before you can view the contents
of the CSD for a specific CICS region,
you must set the scope of the CICS Explorer to
the CICS region, by selecting
the CICS region in the CICSplex
Explorer or the CICSplex Repositories view.
The contents of
the CICS CSD file are displayed
in the following views:
- Groups in the CSD file (CSDGROUP) are displayed in the Resource
Group Definitions view, accessible from the Administration menu.
- Lists in the CSD file (CSDLIST) are displayed in the Group List
definitions view, accessible from the Administration menu.
- Resource definitions in the CSD file are displayed in the resource
definition view. For example, to see all the program definitions in
the CSD, open the Program Definition view. The view displays only
the program definitions that are in the CSD for the selected CICS region.
You can also display the groups and lists in the CICSplex
Repositories view in the following way:
- Select the CICSplex repositories view.
- Expand the CICSplex to show the CICS regions
in the CICSplex.
- Expand the CICS region
whose CSD file you want to explore. The expanded list displays the
groups and lists in the CSD file for that CICS region.
- Select a group and open a resource definition view to display
the resources in that group. For example, to see all the program definitions
in the selected group, open the Program Definition view. Only the
program definitions in that group are displayed.
- Select a list and open the Resource Group Definition view to see
all the groups in the selected list. Only the groups in the selected
list are displayed.
Every resource definition in a CSD file is associated
with a CICS group. The group
name is displayed in the CSD Group column in the resource definition
view. The CSD Group column is not displayed in the default resource
definition view and must be added using the Customize Columns menu
item in the view menu.