Configuring CICS web support components

These components of CICS® web support are needed for all CICS web support tasks. Configure them before starting to work with CICS web support.

About this task

Components of CICS web support provides a full list of all the components.

If you want to use an analyzer program that you coded in an earlier CICS release to reference the code page conversion table DFHCNV, you might need to set up some DFHCNV entries. Code page conversion table entries are not required for new CICS web support development.

Set up these base components as described in the following list. Then work through the subtopics to complete your setup and to verify the operation of CICS web support.

Procedure

  1. Enable TCP/IP support for the CICS region, following the instructions in Enabling TCP/IP in a CICS region.
    This process includes setting up Communications Server and establishing access to a DNS, or domain name, server through z/OS®.
  2. Enable CICS to access z/OS UNIX System Services by including an OMVS segment in the user profile of the CICS region user ID, following the instructions in Giving CICS regions access to z/OS UNIX System Services.
  3. Set up SSL support, following the instructions in Configuring CICS to use SSL.
    Support for security protocols also explains the facilities that SSL provides.
  4. Optional: To configure the values CICS sets in the HTTP server and user-agent headers, set values for the HTTPSERVERHDR and HTTPUSRAGENTHDR system initialization parameters.