The tour consists of three sessions: each session is designed to be completed
in a single sitting in under 20 minutes. Each successive session assumes that
you have completed the previous session. Here is a summary of the tour:
- Session 1.
Editing resource definitions
CICS Configuration Manager administrator only
Create three copies of a small CSD file on your system,
and define a CICS® configuration
for each copy. For the purposes of this tour, we will pretend that these
CSD files contain the resource definitions for separate CICS environments:
development, test, and production.
End of CICS Configuration Manager administrator only
- Edit resource definitions in the development CICS configuration.
- View a report of the differences between the edited resource definitions
in development, and the unedited versions in test and production.
- Session
2. Creating and migrating change packages
- Session
3. Approving change packages
Security administrator only
In your external security manager (this tour
assumes that you are using RACF®, but you could use another SAF-enabled external
security manager): - Define general resource profiles that match the security keys sent by CICS Configuration Manager when a user attempts to
approve or disapprove the migration of a change package.
- Define a group profile for each approver role; add the group profile to
the access lists of the appropriate general resource profiles.
- Add at least one user to each of the group profiles.
End of Security administrator only
CICS Configuration Manager administrator only
Activate the CICS Configuration Manager system
options for security checking and approval checking. End of CICS Configuration Manager administrator only
CICS Configuration Manager administrator only
Activate approval processing for the migration scheme. End of CICS Configuration Manager administrator only
CICS Configuration Manager administrator only
Define an approval profile that requires migrations
from development to test to be approved by three users: a project
manager, a member of the quality assurance team, and an application developer. End of CICS Configuration Manager administrator only
- Update the change package to refer to the approval profile.
- Get users to approve the change package.
- Migrate the approved change package.