Requirements for program autoinstall

To use autoinstall with programs, mapsets, and partitionsets, you must:

  1. Write a customized version of the autoinstall control program for programs, DFHPGADX (unless the supplied version is entirely suitable for your purposes).
  2. Specify the name of your control program on the PGAIEXIT system initialization parameter (the default name is DFHPGADX), or on a SET SYSTEM PROGAUTOEXIT command.
  3. Make program autoinstall active by specifying 'ACTIVE' on the PGAIPGM system initialization parameter (or by issuing a SET SYSTEM PROGAUTOINST(AUTOACTIVE) command).
  4. Specify whether you want autoinstalled program definitions to be recorded on the CICS® global catalog, on the PGAICTLG system initialization parameter (or on a SET SYSTEM PROGAUTOCTLG command).
  5. Include the DFHPGAIP resource definition group in your CICS startup grouplist. DFHPGAIP (which is already included in the CICS-supplied startup list, DFHLIST) contains the default program, mapset, and partitionset model definitions passed to the autoinstall control program, and a definition of DFHPGADX (that you may need to amend).
  6. Create any additional program, mapset, and partitionset model definitions that you need, and add this group to your startup grouplist.
  7. If you want to log messages associated with program autoinstall, define the CSPL transient data (TD) queue.

For information about coding system initialization parameters, see the CICS System Definition Guide. For information about defining programs, mapsets, partitionsets, and TD queues, see the CICS Resource Definition Guide.

Related concepts
Autoinstalling programs--preliminary considerations
Benefits of autoinstalling programs
Related tasks
Rewriting user-replaceable programs
Assembling and link-editing user-replaceable programs
Related reference
The autoinstall control program at INSTALL
The sample autoinstall control program for programs, DFHPGADX
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