Controlling resources by resource description

The simplest way to manage sets of resources is to associate resource groups directly with a resource description. To do this you would:

  1. Create resource groups and add resource definitions to them.
  2. Start of changeCreate a resource description (or identify an existing one) that you want to associate the resource groups with.

    Use the Resource group scope name (WUI) or ResGroup Scope (EUI) field on the resource description to identify a CICS® system or CICS system group where all the resources in the groups should be assigned.

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  3. Start of changeUse the Add to resource description button on the Resource group definition view (WUI) or ADD action command from the RESGROUP view (EUI) to associate one or more resource groups with the description. This creates a resource group-in-description link record (RESINDSC).End of change

The result is that all of the resources in the resource groups are assigned to the specified CICS systems exactly as they were defined to CICSPlex® SM. This is similar to the way in which RDO processes the definitions in a CSD group list.

As with RDO, this simple approach to managing your resources requires separate resource definitions for each element of a resource. So assigning a resource that is local to one CICS system and remote to another would require two resource definitions. And the resources represented by a resource description are more likely to be physically related by the CICS systems where they reside than by any logical function such as an application.

Directly associating entire resource groups with a resource description is in keeping with the basic object model used by other CICSPlex SM components (such as Workload Manager). And this approach is sufficient for using Business Application Services in a manner similar to RDO. However, this can also be viewed as an interim step on the way to complete management of your CICS resources with the use of resource assignments.

Related concepts
Resource descriptions
Resource definition sets
Using logical scopes to control application resources
Controlling resources by resource assignment
Identifying remote resources to CICSPlex SM
Accessing BAS administration views using the EUI
Common EUI administration actions
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