Using the Web User Interface

Resource definitions are the most basic element of the Business Application Services environment. CICSPlex® SM must know about your CICS® resources in order to manage them. Defining your resources to CICSPlex SM is similar to using RDO to define them to CICS – you specify the attributes that describe the resource in one or more WUI views. But you do not have to define every instance of every resource in your CICSplex to CICSPlex SM manually. You can use a small number of resource definitions as templates for the creation of a large number of resources.

You can create a resource definition that describes many similar, if not identical, resources by specifying those attributes that are common to all the resources. You can even specify attributes that apply to a remote instance of the resource along with the local attributes. CICSPlex SM uses the appropriate subset of attributes as it assigns the local and remote resources to various CICS systems.