Business application services redesign

This topic describes improvements to the design of the business application services views and menus used for CICS® resource definitions in the WUI.

In the new WUI design BAS functions are separated into basic and fully functional view menus. To access BAS functions from the WUI main menu click Administration views. At the bottom of the Administration views are two new sub-menus:
Basic CICS resource administration views
This provides a simplified RDO-like model of BAS including resource definitions, resource groups and resource descriptions but not resource assignments.
Fully functional Business Application Services (BAS) administration views
In addition to the basic model this also includes links to resource assignment views aimed at more advanced users. This adds more power and flexibility to the management of resource definitions.
Figure 1. Detail of new CICS resource definition BAS menusItems at the bottom of the Administration views menu link to the Basic CICS resource administration views menu and the Fully functional BAS views menu.
Links from both menus are split into three groups:
Definitions
Includes the following links:
CICS resource definitions
Menu containing links to definition views for each resource type.
Resource groups
Link to definitional view for managing resource group definitions. Associated actions are Create, Update, Remove, Install and Add to Resource description.
Resource assignments (fully functional menu only)
Link to definitional view for creating and managing resource assignments. Associated actions are Create, Update, Remove and Add to Resource description.
Resource descriptions
Link to definitional view for creating and managing resource descriptions. Associated actions are Create, Update, Remove, Install and Replace.
Associations
Includes the following links:
CICS resource definitions in resource group
Link to a new view as shown in Figure 2, which is supported by the new RESINGRP resource table. This replaces the Resources in resource group set of views (one for each resource type) of previous releases.
Figure 2. CICS resource definitions in resource group tabular viewView contains columns for Resource group name, Resource definition name, version and type, and Last time definition changed.
The view includes a Remove action button allowing you to remove an association between a resource definition and its parent resource group. There is no create action with this view. Adding a resource to a group is carried out while defining the resource itself
Resource groups in description
Link to definitional view for managing the associations between resource groups and resource descriptions. Associated actions are Create, Update and Remove.
Resource assignment in description (fully functional menu only)
Link to definitional view for managing the associations between resource assignments and resource descriptions. Associated actions are Create, Update and Remove.
CICS system links
Link to definitional view for managing CICS system link definitions. Associated actions are Create, Remove and Install.
Resources deployed by...
Includes the following links to views displaying active CICS resources:
Resource description
Link to a tabular view displaying deployed resources selected by resource description.
Resource assignment (fully functional menu only)
Link to a tabular view displaying deployed resources selected by resource assignment.
CICS system
Link to a tabular view displaying deployed resources selected by CICS system.