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
| 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 |