You can use the CICS® Cloud
perspective and the Cloud Explorer view to work with platforms, applications,
and policies in CICS.
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- A platform provides a set of services to applications. The platform
is a simple layer of abstraction to decouple applications from the
underlying topology of CICS regions.
A platform contains one or more region types, each of which contains
one or more CICS regions.
- An application is packaged and deployed on a platform as a single
resource. The application is managed as a single entity throughout
its lifecycle, making CICS application
management faster, easier, and less error prone. Application resources
can be dynamically installed across the region types in the platform,
and removed or updated as required.
- A policy provides dynamic management of both applications and
platforms. Policies manage the behavior of user tasks. They contain
a set of rules that can apply to both applications and platforms,
so that you can limit and control the amount of resources that a task
can acquire.
Using the CICS Cloud
perspective, you can create, deploy, and administer platforms, applications,
and policies in bundles. Platforms and applications are defined in
platform bundles and application bundles, which are types of management
bundle. Policies are defined in CICS bundles.