You can use CICSPlex® SM to manage your CICS® resource definitions as CICS Definition objects.
A resource description represents the largest set of resources that can be managed as a unit by CICSPlex SM. It might consist of all the resources in several resource groups or resource assignments (much like a CSD group list) or the set of resources that make up a given application on various CICS systems. When you create a resource description using the batched repository-update facility or API, you can identify an existing resource description to be used as a model. The CREATE command for the RESDESC object accepts the following parameter:
One aspect of managing CICS Definitions is combining them into logical sets of resources in a resource group (RESGROUP). When you create a resource group using the batched repository-update facility or API you can identify an existing resource group to be used as a model. The CREATE command for the RESGROUP object accepts the following parameters:
When you create CICS Definitions using the batched repository-update facility or API you can add them to an existing resource group by using the RESGROUP parameter. The CREATE command for each CICS Definition object (such as CONNDEF) supports the following parameter:
When you use the GET API command to create a result set of CICS Definition records, you can limit your request to definitions in a given resource group, or CICS system. The GET command for each CICS Definition object (such as CONNDEF) supports the following parameters:
When the CICSSYS parameter is used,
the result set will contain records that have been modified to show what the
record would look like when installed in the system specified by CICSSYS(value).