Do these steps for each remote region:
- Using the CICS® Configuration Manager ISPF dialog, edit
the CSD file used by the local region, and define connection and session
resources for the link to the remote region:
- Press the Exit key
(F3) until
you return to the CICS Configuration Manager primary
menu.
- Select primary menu option 2 CICS Resources.
- Enter S next to the CICS configuration
for the local region (suggested name: CICSCM).
A list panel appears with filter fields and column
headings, but no list items. Instead, directly under the column headings
is a "bottom of data" indicator. This empty list is normal: the
panel does not display any list items until you press Enter. This
allows you to adjust the filter before displaying the list, avoiding
delays caused by listing more resource definitions than required.
- In the Filter fields above the Name and Type headings, type an
asterisk (*).
- In the Filter field above the Group heading, type the name of
a resource group for the connection and session that you are about
to define.
Suggestion: CCVLOC
Do
not define resources in the existing group named CCV510. This group
is strictly for use by CICS Configuration Manager:
product updates may delete and replace resource definitions in this
group.
- On the command line, enter DEF
A
pop-up window appears, requesting details of the resource you want
to define.
- Specify CONNECTION as the CICS resource type, and then specify
a name for this resource (up to four characters).
Suggestion: Use the SYSID of the remote region
as the name of the connection resource.
- Press Enter.
- Press Tab to move the cursor to the access method field.
- Press the Prompt key
(F4) to
display a pop-up list of choices.
- Enter S next to the access
method that you want to use.
The previously blank fields for other
attributes now appear with default values for the selected access
method.
- Fill in appropriate values for the remaining attributes.
- Save the connection, and then exit the edit panel.
You return
to the list of resource definitions, showing the new connection resource
definition.
- On the command line, enter DEF
Define
a session resource to match the connection resource that you have
just defined. Define the session resource in the same group as the
connection.
Suggestion: Name the
session resource after the connection, with the suffix SESS. For example,
if you named the connection resource REGA, name the session resource
REGASESS.
- Install the connection and session resources into the local region:
- Press the Exit key
(F3) to return
to the list of CICS configurations. (Primary menu option 2 CICS Resources.)
- Enter G next to the CICS configuration
for the local region.
A list of groups appears.
- Enter I next to the resource
group that contains the connection and session resources (sugggested
name: CCVLOC).
A pop-up window appears, asking you to select the
remote system connections to which you want to install the group.
Rather than installing in a remote region, we want to
install in the local region (the CICS region
running the CICS Configuration Manager server).
This is a special case, because it does not need a remote system connection.
We want the CICS Configuration Manager server
to install the group in its own region.
CICS Configuration Manager recognizes that
the selected CICS configuration matches the CSD file used
by its local region, and displays a "Local" connection. This
is not a remote system connection defined in the CICS configuration.
The pop-up window displays "Local" to allow you to install resources
in the local region in the same way that you would select a remote
system connection to install resources in a remote region.
- Type / next to "Local",
and then press Enter.
The pop-up window closes. If the installation was successful, the Prompt column displays "*Installed" next
to the resource group. Otherwise, enter ? next
to the resource group to display the reason for the failure (for a
description of the reason codes, see Reason codes).
- Define a CICS configuration for the CSD file used by
the remote region. (For a reminder of how to do this, see stage
1.)
Suggestion: Name this CICS configuration
after the application ID of the remote region.
While you
are defining this CICS configuration, enter a remote
system connection name. The remote system connection name must
match the name of the connection resource definition for the
link to the remote region (defined in step 1).
For an illustration of this concept, see Figure 1.
- Edit the CSD file for the remote region, and define connection
and session resources for the link to the local region. Follow the
procedure that you used earlier to edit the CSD file for the local
region (step 1).
Suggestion: Define the connection and session
resources in a resource group named CCVREM.
- Edit the CSD file for the remote region again, and
define the following resources for the CICS Configuration Manager agent. The
details of these resources are described in member CCVXCSDR of the
sample library SCCVSAMP.
- Transaction CCVR
- As for any new transaction, you might need to configure your external
security manager to allow this transaction to run in the remote region.
This depends on the ATTACHSEC attribute value of the connection resource
for the link from the local region to the remote region:
- IDENTIFY
- The agent transaction runs under the authority of the user ID
of the CICS Configuration Manager user that
requested the action. To perform actions on a remote region, the CICS Configuration Manager user must be authorized
to run the CCVR transaction in the remote region.
- LOCAL
- The agent transaction runs under the authority of the CICS region
user ID of the CICS region running the CICS Configuration Manager server.
The CCVR transaction invokes the CICS-supplied program
DFHMIRS (in the IBM® protected group DFHISC). This program must
be installed in the remote region (along with the other prerequisites
for CICS intercommunication).
- Programs CCVxxxxx
- These program resource definitions are required only if program
autoinstall is inactive in the remote region.
- TDqueue CCVM
- Transient data queue used by the agent.
In addition to describing resources
for the CICS Configuration Manager agent,
member CCVXCSDR also contains replacement
definitions for the CICS-supplied resource definition online
(RDO) transactions CEDA, CEDB, and CEDC. 
You can choose to define
these resources by either:
- Submitting your own JCL to invoke the CICS-supplied program DFHCSDUP,
with the definitions supplied in member CCVXCSDR of the CICS Configuration Manager sample library
SCCVSAMP.
- Using CICS Configuration Manager to
copy each definition from the CSD file used by the local region, as
follows:
- Press the Exit key
(F3) to return
to the list of CICS configurations. (Primary menu option 2 CICS Resources.)
- Enter S next to the CICS configuration
for the local region (suggested name: CICSCM).
- Type CCV510 in
the Filter field above the Group column heading, and then press Enter.
The
resource definitions in the group CCV510 appear in the
list. This group contains the resource definitions that you need to
copy to the remote regions.
- Locate the resource definition required by the
remote CICS region.
Tip: On the command
line, enter L CCVR to locate the CCVR
transaction resource definition. (Transaction names are case sensitive:
you must enter CCVR in uppercase.)
- Enter C (for "copy") next
to the resource definition.
A pop-up window appears, requesting
details of the copy target.
- Select the CICS configuration for the remote region, and
the resource group where you want to copy the program resource definition.
Suggestion: Copy the resource definition to
the group that already contains the connection and session resource
definitions (suggested name: CCVREM).
- Press Enter to perform the copy.
Edit the CICS startup
job for the remote region, and add the CICS Configuration Manager application load
library (containing the agent programs) and national language support
load library to the CICS library concatenation DFHRPL: //DFHRPL …
DD DSN=ccvhlq.SCCVAlang,DISP=SHR
DD DSN=ccvhlq.SCCVLINK,DISP=SHR
where lang is ENU
(U.S. English) or JPN (Japanese)
Then
restart the remote CICS region.

- Install the resources that you have just defined.
In
the previous step, if you performed a cold start after updating DFHRPL,
and the resources belong to resource groups that are in the startup
list, then the resources will already be installed, and you can skip
this step.
Specifically, you will need to install:
To install these resources, use the CEDA transaction
supplied with CICS. For example, sign on to the remote region,
and then enter:
CEDA INSTALL GROUP(CCVREM)
This
is the last time that you will need to use CEDA INSTALL on that remote
region. After configuring the CICS Configuration Manager agent, you can
use CICS Configuration Manager to
install resources.