Initializing the local catalog

Before the local catalog can be used to start a CICS® region, you must initialize it with data from the domain manager parameter records and three loader domain parameter records.

About this task

The domain manager parameter records contain information relating to the CICS domains and are identified by their domain names. See Table 1 for a complete list.

The three loader domain parameter records contain information relating to these resources:

  • DFHDMP, the CSD file manager
  • DFHEITSP, the RDO language definition table
  • DFHPUP, the CSD parameter utility program

Procedure

  1. To enable you to initialize the local catalog correctly, with all the records in the correct sequence, run the CICS-supplied utility DFHCCUTL immediately after you have defined the VSAM data set.
    This utility writes the necessary data to the local catalog from the CICS domains.
  2. The loader domain also writes a program definition record for each CICS nucleus module. The number of records varies depending on the level of function that you have included in your CICS region. Allow for at least 75 of these loader-domain records.
  3. Use the CICS-supplied utility DFHSMUTL to add records to the local catalog to enable the CICS self-tuning mechanism for storage manager domain subpools.

Example

Table 1. List of domain names
Domain name in catalog Description
DFHAP Application domain
DFHAS Asynchronous services domain
DFHBA Business application manager
DFHCC CICS local catalog domain
DFHDD Directory manager domain
DFHDH Document handler domain
DFHDM Domain manager domain
DFHDP Debugging profiles domain
DFHDS Dispatcher domain
DFHDU Dump domain
DFHEJ Enterprise Java™ domain
DFHEM Event manager domain
DFHEP Event processing domain
DFHGC CICS global catalog domain
DFHIE ECI over TCP/IP domain
DFHKE Kernel domain
DFHLD Loader domain
DFHLG Log manager domain
DFHLM Lock manager domain
DFHME Message domain
DFHML XML services domain
DFHMN Monitoring domain
DFHNQ Enqueue manager domain
DFHOT Object transaction domain
DFHPA System initialization parameter domain
DFHPG Program manager domain
DFHPI Pipeline manager domain
DFHPT Partner management domain
DFHRL Resource life-cycle domain
DFHRM Recovery manager domain
DFHRS Region status domain
DFHRX RRMS domain
DFHRZ Request streams domain
DFHSH Scheduler services domain
DFHSJ JVM domain
DFHSM Storage manager domain
DFHSO Sockets domain
DFHST Statistics domain
DFHTI Timer domain
DFHTR Trace domain
DFHTS Temporary storage domain
DFHUS User domain
DFHWB Web domain
DFHW2 Web 2.0 domain
DFHXM Transaction manager domain
DFHXS Security domain