Administration reference

This information contains the reference material that is required in order to administer a CICS® system. It should is used in addition with Configuring, Administering, Monitoring your TXSeries system, and Improving the performance of your CICS system.

Audience

The system administrators of CICS system use this information. . It provides details of commands and definitions.

As this information is provided mostly reference material with lesser text to guide you on the use of commands and references, it is expected that you read the appropriate topics in Configuring, Administering, Monitoring your TXSeries system, Ensuring security in a CICS environment, and Improving the performance of your CICS system, before attempting to use this material.

After you have used the Configuring, Administering, Monitoring your TXSeries system, Ensuring security in a CICS environment, and Improving the performance of your CICS system, to understand the nature of the task, use this book to find the details of the commands, definitions, programs, and transactions that you need.

Roadmap for this information

The material in each reference section is organized alphabetically.
Table 1. Road map for administration reference
If you want information about ... Refer to ...
Resource attributes Resource definitions
Resource definition commands and offline utilities Resource definition commands and offline utilities
CICS-supplied transactions CICS-supplied transactions
CICS-supplied programs CICS-supplied programs
User exits User exits
Formatting functions for monitor and statistics data CICS monitoring data formatter offline utilities
Statistics tables The statistics records
Environment variables used by CICS and Micro Focus COBOL Environment variables used by CICS
Terminal model definitions Terminal model definitions
Cross-references between names and descriptions of resource attributes Index of CICS resource attributes
cicscp defaults The cicscp defaults
Keyboard-mapping Syntax of the keyboard-mapping file
Color-mapping Syntax of the color-mapping file
CICS and External Authentication Manager The interface between CICS and an EAM
CICS and External Security Manager The interface between CICS and an ESM