When collecting candidates, CICS® Configuration Manager uses the same rules as CICS when selecting which resource definitions to install after a cold start:
CICS Configuration Manager allows you to specify lists in similar manner to the GRPLIST SIT parameter. However, CICS Configuration Manager provides more flexibility than the GRPLIST SIT parameter, enabling you to easily simulate and test changes in group sequence. You can specify more than four lists in the group sequence, and you can add individual groups to the sequence, simulating the effect of those groups being in the startup lists without actually having to edit the lists. For details, see the GROUP and GRPLIST parameters of the DEPLOY command.
CICS Configuration Manager performs various checks to verify whether candidates will actually be installed, and includes the results of these checks in the deployment analysis report. These checks include:
In other cases, CICS installs a resource definition even if it requires a resource definition that has not yet been installed. For example, CICS will install a transaction even if the program to which it refers has not yet been installed (the program might be autoinstalled on-demand). The deployment analysis reports include warning messages to notify you of cases where a resource definition would be installed even though it requires a resource definition that is not yet installed.
When collecting candidate resource definitions from a CSD file, you must specify the system ID (SYSID) of the CICS region where, for the purposes of deployment analysis reporting, the candidate resource definitions would be installed. This enables the report to handle any candidate resource definitions that specify remote system (REMOTESYSTEM) attribute values:
Whether the report interprets a resource definition as local or remote is especially significant for comparison reports, which notify you when a resource definition has been installed locally in one set of resource definitions, but as a remote resource definition in the other set.