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.
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 view
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.