The CICSPlex® SM user interface is an MVS/TSO ISPF EUI supported by the CAS. This ISPF interface is used to set up the CICSPlex SM component
topology and can be used by operators to manage CICS systems and resources. CICSPlex SM’s
EUI is used:
- By the CICSPlex SM operator, who uses it much as the master-terminal operator
uses CEMT and other, CICS-supplied transactions to monitor and control the
resources of a single CICS system.
- By the system administrator, who uses the interface to define and maintain
the CICSPlex SM configuration, and to specify BAS, WLM, RTA, and monitoring
requirements.
The general principles of the CICSPlex SM user interface are defined in the CICSPlex System Manager User Interface Guide.
Information about your enterprise
is displayed in formatted displays called views. You
control the type of information that is displayed, and the format in which
it is displayed, using view commands. From a view,
you use action commands to manage the displayed data.
Before you enter a view command, you define the CICS systems or resources
affected by the command by setting a context and a scope:
- The context is almost always the CICSplex.
Note:
When you are viewing or updating CMAS
configuration data, the context is a CMAS rather than a CICSplex, and any scope
value is ignored.
(Remember that the CICSplex is the largest
single unit on which any CICSPlex SM command can act.)
- The scope is always a subset of the context: its
purpose is to limit the effects of CICSPlex SM commands to particular CICS systems
or resources. Indeed, the effects of any command cannot be felt beyond the
current scope. The scope can be a single CICS system, a CICS system group
(made up of any number of CICS systems in the CICSplex), or a business application
(represented by a resource description).
You can look at CICS systems or resources anywhere in your enterprise from
one point, the single point of control, simply by changing the context and
scope.
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